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| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Apr 18 2006 : 5:07:44 PM
I would like to know what music is everyone's favorites. I would like to know general music as well as hymns or inspirational music.
Another thing I would like to know is what lullabies did you hear as a child & what lullabies did you sing to your own broods.
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 22 2006 : 2:06:11 PM
Oh yeah, as far as singing to my children. I've sung the same "normal" lullabies that probably everyone's heard and I was sung them as a child. But also, our family has sung a Norwegian song that's been passed down (and when I sung it to some new Norwegian friends, they knew the song!!!) for several generations.
I also made up a little song that I sang to my son when he was a baby and now my daughter sings it to her dolls!
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 22 2006 : 2:03:28 PM
I like almost any kind of music. Seriously! I grew up learning to play the piano and flute, and singing in church choirs/ensembles. My grandma taught me to play the piano, and she played the accordian also. My uncle would bring his guitar every time they'd come up from Texas to visit and we'd all sit around and sing and play music. I currently play the keyboard for our church's praise team and help with the music in children's church. I like rock, punk, rap, country, ska....you name it, I like some of it! I do appreciate the old hymns, but when it comes to worshipping, I tend to like modern Christian music better, but not that normal CCM stuff, I like my music edgier than most "contemporary" churches play it. My son is in 5th grade band and learning to play saxophone, just like his daddy, and he got a guitar for Christmas and is self-taught for now. My daughter is really interested in playing the piano, so I'm starting to teach her now. She loves to sing and dance too. Our family is very music-driven!
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
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| Libbie |
Posted - Apr 22 2006 : 08:43:23 AM
I love having music around, also. I play the guitar and sing - did in coffee shops during college for spending money! Mostly folky-bluegrassy-country stuff... Now I really like all different types of music, depending on what I'm doing. Lately, I have especially been enjoying spanish flamenco guitar music - it's so upbeat and really can make household work fly by...
I do tend to sing while I'm doing things - mostly goofy little kid songs or funny songs that I make up with rhymes that will amuse my little one...
I really want my little guys to grow up in a house with music and song - everything from "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel" (which I love, too) to "Old MacDonald" and onward!!! I remember my mother singing a particular Puerto Rican lullaby to me about a tree frog that I sing to my son sometimes, it's such a sweet thing to be able to carry on traditions like that....
XOXO, Libbie
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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Apr 19 2006 : 09:55:35 AM
music has always been a very big thing in my family. My stepmom played guitar so do about 8 out of my 11 siblings. When we were young it was always Frank, Dean, Ella and then some older country and lots of Folk music which I adore. I listen to alot of different music but my favorites are folk, especially Irish & Scottish folk songs about spinning and I love gospel music. It's hard to pinpoint because I love so much of it.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Apr 18 2006 : 10:45:33 PM
I like folk, country and bluegrass music as well as 70's stuff (my age!) and don't like rap, or any of the stuff like that ..different names for it all the time...I like "regular" music. I like to garden to celtic or soft folk music, and I like to milk the cow to country. Most of my CDs are country..old and new.
I don't have a nice voice and I am not musical in the least..although I do love music and sing with the radio like crazy! No one in my family (that I grew up in) are musical. My girls are both taking piano lessons and oldest daughter is just a natural and really good! (but boy..she sure can't sing...yikes!..don't tell her I said that!)None of my other kids are musical either. But we all sing loud with the radio..and I sing loud milking the cow.
My favorite hymn is "Put your Shoulder to the Wheel".
Jenny in Utah
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| frannie |
Posted - Apr 18 2006 : 9:58:30 PM
i love music and it has always been a big part of my life. my first degree was in music therapy, and i was a voice major.
ive always been partial to folk music and even though i wasnt brought up with it, i became involved in bluegrass music about 20 years ago and eventually became a part of a band.
i still sing and mostly i sing gospel , blue grass, folk .
i really love all music except heavy metal, rap,i guess its my age.
when my children were little i sang alot to them.
now i sing to my grandchildren.
some favorite songs to sing to them are
"close your eyes"
thats a james taylor song
also a song from the old free to be you and me, i dont know the name but the hook in it is "we dont have to change at all"
i sometimes am late to discover music. i know that woody guthrie has alot of childrens song and i have wanted to learn them but havent yet.
for my own listening i love gilliam welch, old crowe medicine show, allison krause, los lonely boys, and all the old traditional bluegrass folks.
i even sing to my goats and it seems to calm them down. i sing a song in gaelic which is roughly translated "johnnys gone for a soldier."
well that was a trip down memory lane, thanks for asking and sorry i got so long in this reply
fran |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Apr 18 2006 : 9:17:29 PM
My dad was in a band called the Vagabonds in the late 20s - early 30s. He was their singer and played the banjo and ukelele. They played in NY and Conn. My grandfather forbid my mother to see him because he was a musician. They were married for about 65 years. Music has played a big part in my life, too. I had a music scholarship (voice) to college but gave it up to get married. In our family, that's called "the big mistake." I never stop singing. I guess I'm my father's daughter in that way.
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| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Apr 18 2006 : 5:10:42 PM
Sorry, forgot to add that I would also love hearing about musical backgrounds, did your parents sing? Did they play? What type of music did you grow up hearing?
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·.
Wife of Jonathan, Mother of Joel, Caitlyn, Elia |
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