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From Tradition to the Future Universal Language of Love: Lullabies
P
nar Kasapoğlu Akyol
1. Introduction
Since the ancient times, a majority of the traditional literature’s oral narrative types and
music’s first creators were forgotten in time and they became anonymous. Previously, orally,
and later these traditional products reach today through writing. According to Ismail Görkem,
these texts are unthinkable without music, and mainly without rhythm. Rhythm is an
important element to remember the lyrics and the music of a work of art (2009).
There are always music and accordingly the rhythm in people’s lives. The basis of the
physical structure of man and the nature we live in creates a rhythm by itself. Each life
breathes on the world, and also the heart beats are in a rhythm. Therefore, this rhythm shows
itself in every creation of people. The importance of this rhythm in our lives is stressed by
Ekrem K raç in his article. According to him, Turkish folk literature works mainly written in
poetry, which constitutes the basic element of rhythm and this rhythm has a harmony, a
measure, a stop and a rhyme (1997). Also, Esat Bozyiğit adds: “The actual reason to make a
baby sleep is not the simple and monotonous lullaby lyrics, the fact are that the rhythm of the
tune” (1989, p. 9).
Both social and individual reasons, people always used music as a communication tool
in their lives. Therefore, the transition periods of people`s lives, like birth, marriage and death
ceremonies also benefited from music. For centuries, singing ballads, laments, and lullabies
are some examples of this anonymous works. Fundamental changes in people’s lives begin
with the labor of a baby. With the arrival of the baby, naturally all of the family members and
all of the mothers focus are on the baby. The baby's all of the needs, such as comfort, peace of
mind are always in the foreground for everybody. For this reason, lullabies are especially
created for the babies and formed in order to meet these needs through the centuries.
“A mother who grew up with a traditional Turkish culture when wants to make her
baby sleep, rocks the baby in her arms and sings a lullaby with a special tune. In
this way, babies grow up listening to lullabies with their native languages, and
create the ability to develop "beat time" and "creating harmony" (K raç, 1997, p.
38).
Lullabies are the traditional songs, which have soothing words and a slow melody sing
by a mother or the eldest lady in the family with a soft tone of voice. Lullabies are sung to
babies to cool them down and to prepare him for a comfortable and peaceful sleep (Artun,
1989). Creating the appropriate environment and singing the lullaby to the baby, he
understands that it was time to sleep and he tends to comply with this condition. If a lullaby
would sing a soft voice with a slow rhythm, the baby`s breathing is affected and heart rate
slows down and at the end of the lullaby baby sleeps. “Lullabies are not just making babies
ready to fall asleep physically, but also with the effect of emotional sound indicators, the baby
conditions psychologically” (Karakaya, 2004, p. 54).
According to scientific researches made recently it is expressed that babies hear the
environment outside even when they are in their mother’s womb and react accordingly. Even
though there are various claims concerning the periods when babies start hearing and start
giving reactions, according to many other researches today, babies are born by recognizing
the sound of their mother. It was found out that after the birth, the baby would like to listen to
the voice of their mother rather than the other women’s (Güneş & Güneş, 2012).
In other words, lullabies are as “a safety blanket” to protect babies from the outside of
the unknown world and give them safety feeling and confidence. Also, babies get warmth and