Know non-musical benefits of music this World Music Day

 

World Music Day (Fête de la Musique)  is observed on June 21 every year and musicians of all gere are urged to perform on the streets and public places. Various music enthusiasts, musicians, rappers, folk artists and instrumentalists of all kinds collaborate to perform in open to highlight the importance of music in both as profession and to make daily life  enjoyable.

In France, the observance is held with several thousand concerts with millions of amateur musicians and singers performing in public for the audience

Even the non-music use of music has many benefits

-It improves memorisation

-it improves attentiveness, patience and discipline

-it improves mental health

-it makes activities interesting

-it provides phonological awareness

-it mitigates speech defects

-it entertains and relaxes to become a therapeutic device

-it develops emotions and feelings by activating right hemisphere of brain

-it build self-confidence and self-awareness of inner potential of singing

-it improves overall learning ability

-it is used to express devotion and prayers heartful

-it provides cultural linkage to teaching

-it in the form of lullabies can be right development of babies

Here is an adapted lullaby that young mothers can sing in croon and trilling voice this  night for their babies

ADAPTED LULLABY

Hush-a-bye, close your eyes

Go to sleep, cradle I prise

I rock the cradle for thee

Dear baby calm is the sea

Sleep ‘n  peace’ll attend thee

***

Drowsy hours are now creeping,

Hill and dale in slumber sleeping

Rock-a-bye baby on the treetops.

When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.

Hush-a-bye, close your eyes

Go to  sleep, cradle I prise

***

Your mother shakes the dreamland tree

And from it fall sweet dreams for thee

Guardian angels the night will send thee,

All through the night, Sleep, baby, sleep

Hush-a-bye, close your eyes

Go to  sleep, cradle I prise

***

When you wake, you shall have

All the pretty little horses

Dapples and greys, blacks and bays

All the pretty little horses

Hush-a-bye, close your eyes

Go to  sleep, cradle I prise

***

All through the night

Sleep, dear baby sleep.

Hush-a-bye, close your eyes

Go to sleep, cradle I prise

 

l.


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