Lullabies and nursery songs - GUARANTEED to help children newborn to 6 years old sleep through the night - or your money back. Clinically proven to calm babies. Includes all 9 songs from the 1999 Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award winning Heartbeat Musical Therapy CD #1 plus all 9 songs from CD #2 - on one compact disc. The music on this CD actually stops babies from crying, soothes symptoms of colic, and helps parents get their children to sleep through the night - without having to let them cry! Included in each CD is a "Parents' Guide - An Introduction to Heartbeat Musical Therapy" booklet with common-sense suggestions for bedtime routines that work. This music can even be used during the last trimester of pregnancy to help both mom and baby get a good night's sleep. In all of our Baby-Go-to-Sleep recordings, a real human heartbeat, recorded from the chest, is used as the rhythm (drums) for traditional lullabies and nursery songs. The heartbeat is intentionally the predominant sound and never stops between songs. The heart rate has been set at a constant tempo for each song and only changes tempo between songs. The tempos for each song range from 78 to 62 beats per minute; the tempos which approximate the resting adult heart rate.
The songs were selected because of their simple melodies. Most are infants' and children's favorites that have withstood the test of time. We incorporated the basic principles of relaxation into the arrangements, keeping each section and component of the songs simple, repetitive, and predictable. In order to express the emotions of compassion and tenderness in their singing, most of the studio singers held dolls or imagined singing to their own child at bedtime. The performers were also asked to sing the melodies without improvising, so parents and children could sing along. Various other recording, arranging, and performance techniques were used to maintain interest in a soothing way throughout the recording.
We are glad to be able to preserve these traditional lullabies and nursery songs in a way that is both fresh and timeless. We feel we are using these songs for their highest purpose. We have confidence these arrangements are in keeping with the way the great composers who wrote them would like to have them arranged and interpreted.
This music has been proven over and over and over, in thousands of challenging situations during the past 15 years. It has made homes happier by providing a profound experience of peace and relaxation, helping children and adults to go to sleep in over a million families. It has brought healing relief in over 8,000 hospitals and special care centers to parents and children struggling with serious problems. In places where life is not harmonious, it has offered harmony. We feel this music is God's gift, and we are grateful for it.
