"Pick a song that you can stand to sing over and over, maybe for years," is advice that Elizabeth Wolf of Merrimac, Mass., gives new parents. "Doesn't matter how well you sing it. Over time that will ...

A lullaby, more than other forms of music, implies a specific performer and a specific audience. From Middle English “to lull,” the archetypical lullaby is sung gently by a mother or caretaker to a ...

Everyone knows the melody of Brahms' Lullaby. Even if you've never sung it, or had it sung to you, you recognize it as the quintessential going-to-sleep tune. It's everywhere, including Tom and Jerry, ...