Frère Jacques, the Glossary

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1. 97 relations: AllMusic, Austria, Barbara Heldt, Barbara Mittler, BBC, Benedictines, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Brittany, Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France, Cadence, Canada, Canon (music), Charles Lebouc, Cheese, Cheminformatics, Chemistry, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese culture, CHINOPERL, Circuit rank, Counterpoint, Cycle basis, Dirge, Dominican Order, Edward Kilenyi Jr., Frère Jacques Beaulieu, Friar, Funeral march, George Harrison, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gustav Mahler, Half note, Henri Bernstein, Henry-Louis de La Grange, Historical Chinese anthems, Irvine Loudon, Jacob, James the Apostle, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jiang Zemin, John Lennon, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal of Cheminformatics, K-pop, Koine Greek, Kozma Prutkov, Kuomintang, Latin, Le Pétomane, Leonard Bernstein, ... Expand index (47 more) »

2. French children's songs
3. French folk songs
4. French nursery rhymes
5. Rounds (music)
6. Songs about sleep

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Barbara Heldt

Barbara Heldt (born 2 February 1940 in New York City) is an American emerita professor of Russian at the University of British Columbia.

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Barbara Mittler

Barbara Mittler (born 15 February 1968 in Hagen, West Germany) is a German sinologist.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France

The Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France was a French peer-reviewed scientific journal on chemistry published by the Société Chimique de France.

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Cadence

In Western musical theory, a cadence is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 105-106.. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canon (music)

In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes).

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Charles Lebouc

Charles Joseph Lebouc (22 December 1822 – 6 March 1893) was a French cellist and composer.

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Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.

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Cheminformatics

Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to the use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "in silico" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive problems in the field of chemistry, including in its applications to biology and related molecular fields.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Chinese culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.

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CHINOPERL

CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, formerly CHINOPERL Papers and CHINOPERL News, is a peer-reviewed American academic journal dedicated to the study of Chinese performing arts like quyi and xiqu (Chinese opera).

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Circuit rank

In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the circuit rank, cyclomatic number, cycle rank, or nullity of an undirected graph is the minimum number of edges that must be removed from the graph to break all its cycles, making it into a tree or forest.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.

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Cycle basis

In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a cycle basis of an undirected graph is a set of simple cycles that forms a basis of the cycle space of the graph.

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Dirge

A dirge (url-status) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Edward Kilenyi Jr.

Edward Kilenyi Jr. (1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist.

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Frère Jacques Beaulieu

Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP; 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 18th century. The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme Frère Jacques (also known in English as Brother John), but this is not well-established.

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Friar

A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Funeral march

A funeral march (marche funèbre in French, marcia funebre in Italian, Trauermarsch in German, marsz żałobny in Polish), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Half note

In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet).

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Henri Bernstein

Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.

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Henry-Louis de La Grange

Henry-Louis de La Grange (26 May 1924 – 27 January 2017) was a French musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.

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Historical Chinese anthems

Historical Chinese anthems comprise a number of official and unofficial national anthems of China composed during the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China.

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Irvine Loudon

Irvine Loudon (1 August 1924 – 7 January 2015) was a British doctor and a medical historian on childbirth fever and maternal mortality.

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Jacob

Jacob (Yaʿqūb; Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam.

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James the Apostle

James the Apostle may refer to.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was a French composer and music theorist.

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Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society.

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Journal of Cheminformatics

The Journal of Cheminformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers cheminformatics and molecular modelling.

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K-pop

K-pop, short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture.

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Koine Greek

Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.

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Kozma Prutkov

Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Козьма́ Петро́вич Прутко́в) is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) and his cousins, the brothers Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908), (1830-1884) and (1826-1896), during the later part of the rule (1825-1855) of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Le Pétomane

Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 – August 8, 1945), better known by his stage name Le Pétomane, was a French flatulist (professional fartist) and entertainer.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

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Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor, author and composer.

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Les Frères Jacques

Les Frères Jacques were a French vocal quartet active from 1946 to 1982, comprising André Bellec, Georges Bellec, François Soubeyran, and Paul Tourenne.

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Lithotomy

Lithotomy from Greek for "lithos" (stone) and "tomos" (cut), is a surgical method for removal of calculi, stones formed inside certain organs, such as the urinary tract (kidney stones), bladder (bladder stones), and gallbladder (gallstones), that cannot exit naturally through the urinary system or biliary tract.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor may describe an interval, chord, scale, or key.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Matins

Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning.

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Molecular graph

In chemical graph theory and in mathematical chemistry, a molecular graph or chemical graph is a representation of the structural formula of a chemical compound in terms of graph theory.

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Morning Edition

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by NPR.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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National Symphony Orchestra

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1930 by cellist Hans Kindler, its principal performing venue is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Nmixx

Nmixx (formerly known tentatively as JYPn) is a South Korean girl group formed by SQU4D, a sub-label of JYP Entertainment.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.

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Paperback Writer

"Paperback Writer" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Patriarchs (Bible)

The patriarchs (אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites.

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Peter Cusack (musician)

Peter Cusack is an English artist and musician who is a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice), and is a research staff member and founding member of the London College of Communication in the University of the Arts London.

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Pierre Veber

Pierre-Eugène Veber (15 May 1869 – 20 August 1942) was a French playwright and writer.

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Quarter note

A quarter note (American) or crotchet (British) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve).

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Republic of China Military Academy

The Republic of China Military Academy, also known as the Chinese Military Academy (CMA), is the service academy for the army.

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Richard Freed

Richard Donald Freed (December 27, 1928 – January 1, 2022) was an American music critic, program annotator and administrator.

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Ring (chemistry)

In chemistry, a ring is an ambiguous term referring either to a simple cycle of atoms and bonds in a molecule or to a connected set of atoms and bonds in which every atom and bond is a member of a cycle (also called a ring system).

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Ron Haselden

Ron Haselden (born 1944) is a British artist who splits his time between London and the French coastal town of Plouër-sur-Rance, in Brittany, France.

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Round (music)

A round (also called a perpetual canon or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different voices, but nevertheless fit harmoniously together. Frère Jacques and round (music) are rounds (music).

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Saint-Fons

Saint-Fons (Cent-Fonts) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern France.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.

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Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music.

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Surf's Up (song)

"Surf's Up" is a song recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

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Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Journal of Urology

The Journal of Urology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering urology published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Urological Association.

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The Musical Quarterly

The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.

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Three Blind Mice

"Three Blind Mice" is an English nursery rhyme and musical round. Frère Jacques and Three Blind Mice are rounds (music), songwriter unknown, traditional children's songs and year of song unknown.

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Two Tigers (nursery rhyme)

Two Tigers is a popular traditional Mandarin nursery rhyme called "Liang Zhi Lao Hu" in Mandarin. Frère Jacques and Two Tigers (nursery rhyme) are traditional children's songs.

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Uri Caine

Uri Caine (born June 8, 1956) is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer from Philadelphia.

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Ute Jung-Kaiser

Ute Jung-Kaiser, née Jung (born 16 April 1942) is a German musicologist.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Young People's Concerts

The Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic are the longest-running series of family concerts of classical music in the world.

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Young, Dumb, Stupid

"Young, Dumb, Stupid" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Nmixx for their first extended play Expérgo.

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.

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See also

French children's songs

• Ah ! Les crocodiles
• Ah! vous dirai-je, maman
• Alouette (song)
• Au clair de la lune
• Frère Jacques
• Il était un petit navire
• J'ai vu le loup
• L'Empereur, sa femme et le petit prince
• Le Carillon de Vendôme
• Loup y es-tu?
• Pirouette cacahuète
• Une souris verte

French folk songs

• À la claire fontaine
• Ah ! Les crocodiles
• Ah! vous dirai-je, maman
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Arnold Book of Old Songs
• Au clair de la lune
• Auprès de ma blonde
• D'où viens-tu, bergère?
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris
• Frère Jacques
• Il était un petit navire
• La Jument de Michao
• Le bon roi Dagobert (song)
• Lo Fiolairé
• Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
• Pop Plinn
• Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
• Suite Sudarmoricaine
• Sur le Pont d'Avignon
• The Partisan
• The Song of La Palice
• Une jeune Pucelle
• Vive la rose

French nursery rhymes

• Ah! vous dirai-je, maman
• Frère Jacques
• Geneviève Poitrine
• Mots d'Heures

Rounds (music)

• Christmas Is Coming
• Come Follow Me (To the Redwood Tree)
• Danket, danket dem Herrn
• Dona nobis pacem (round)
• Es tönen die Lieder
• Frère Jacques
• Froh zu sein bedarf es wenig
• Kookaburra (song)
• Lobet und preiset, ihr Völker, den Herrn
• Round (music)
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Scotland's Burning
• Shalom chaverim
• Sumer is icumen in
• Three Blind Mice
• Viel Glück und viel Segen
• What a queer bird

Songs about sleep

• A Charm of Lullabies
• A Sleepin' Bee
• Asleep (song)
• Back to Sleep (song)
• Cry Myself to Sleep
• Daydream (Wallace Collection song)
• Don't Wake Me Up (Chris Brown song)
• Dors, mon amour
• Frère Jacques
• Golden Slumbers
• Good Night (Beatles song)
• I Can't Sleep (song)
• I'm Only Sleeping
• I'm So Tired
• Insomnia (Daya song)
• Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)
• No Sleep till Brooklyn
• Oh! How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home
• Sing Me to Sleep
• Sleep Little Girl
• Sleepin' with the Radio On
• Stay Awake (Mary Poppins song)
• Stutter Rap (No Sleep til Bedtime)
• Talking in Your Sleep (Crystal Gayle song)
• Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics song)
• The Cat Sat Asleep by the Side of the Fire
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight
• Two Sleepy People
• Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire
• We All Sleep Alone
• We Should Be Sleeping
• Welterusten meneer de president
• When It's Sleepy Time Down South
• While the Earth Sleeps

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frère_Jacques

Also known as Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping?, Brother John (song), Brother Peter, Frere Jacque, Frère Jacques (song), Frère Jacques in popular culture, Frère Jake, Martinillo.

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