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    Nursery rhymes are traditional poems or songs for children that originated in Britain and many other countries. The term "nursery rhymes" dates back to the late 18th/early 19th century. Lullabies, which help children sleep, are considered the oldest form of children's songs and can be found in every human culture. While many nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, some of the earliest surviving English examples include "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man". Printed collections of rhymes became popular in the 19th century, including Mother Goose's Melodies published in the United States in 1833. Hungarian nursery

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    Nursery rhymes are traditional poems or songs for children that originated in Britain and many other countries. The term "nursery rhymes" dates back to the late 18th/early 19th century. Lullabies, which help children sleep, are considered the oldest form of children's songs and can be found in every human culture. While many nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, some of the earliest surviving English examples include "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man". Printed collections of rhymes became popular in the 19th century, including Mother Goose's Melodies published in the United States in 1833. Hungarian nursery

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    Mónika Torda-Csekő
    Nursery rhymes are traditional poems or songs for children that originated in Britain and many other countries. The term "nursery rhymes" dates back to the late 18th/early 19th century. Lullabies, which help children sleep, are considered the oldest form of children's songs and can be found in every human culture. While many nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, some of the earliest surviving English examples include "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man". Printed collections of rhymes became popular in the 19th century, including Mother Goose's Melodies published in the United States in 1833. Hungarian nursery

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    Nursery

    Rhymes
    What is a nursery rhyme?
    1. A traditional poem or song for children in
    Britain and many other countries.

    2. The name (nursery rhymes) goes back to the


    late 18th/early 19th century.

    3. In North America the term Mother Goose


    Rhymes means the same and is still often used.
    History
    Lullabies---------------------------------
    (Altatók)
    ● The oldest children's songs.
    ● To help a child sleep.

    ● Lullabies can be found in every


    Famous lullabies in English:
    human culture.
    Rock a bye baby, on the tree top…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03VAIrkmrD0

    Hush little baby, don’t you cry…


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrWwnBfvkM
    Early nursery rhymes---------------------
    ● short children's rhyming songs
    ● words that rhyme
    ● "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" is one
    of the oldest surviving English nursery
    rhymes
    ● most nursery rhymes were not written down
    until the 18th century
    19th century------------------------------
    In the early 19th century printed collections of rhymes:

    ● Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826)


    ● in the United States, Mother Goose's Melodies (1833)
    ● The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)
    ● Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, (fireside stories,
    game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes,
    places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and
    nursery songs (lullabies)
    Hungarian nursery rhymes
    ● Are these only the so called ‘mondókák’ ?
    ● Ec-pec kimehetsz..
    ● Süss fel nap….
    ● Csigabiga gyere ki..

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