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 ...

"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 ...

The melody comes from Brahms' "Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht," the fourth of five Lieder published as Op. 49. And while there's no question it's a beautiful lullaby, it turns out there's also a ...