The operatic lullabies of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular differ from the model in several features which, in addition to characteristic melodic and harmonic turns, seem to point to a particularly ...

Our father told us Ramayana stories and mother sang us Russian folk songs as lullabies when we were kids. In our apartment, there are both icons of Christian saints and Krishna miniature statues.

The Icelandic lullaby “Bíum, Bíum, Bambaló” is haunted by a face at the window. The Russian “Bayu Bayushki Bayu” warns to stay away from the edge of the bed or a little gray wolf will ...