(VHQN) - With her love for children, Quang Nam female musician Tran Thu Huong has many compositions for children, including a special musical material: nursery rhymes.
Bring nursery rhymes to children
For many years, music lovers across the country have known female musician Tran Thu Huong - member of the Vietnam Musicians Association (from Que Hiep commune, Que Son district, currently living in Di Linh plateau, Lam Dong province), for hundreds of songs with diverse themes and genres.
In the field of songs written for children, she has more than 100 songs printed in two collections of songs "From the podium of love" and "Vang trang canh hammock" (published by Thanh Nien Publishing House) along with the music DVD "Lullaby for the grandmother", loved by children all over the country...
Her childhood love did not stop there, recently the female musician released a music album-DVD of 10 songs called "I love nursery rhymes" to send to children across the country through television broadcasts in many localities...
Musician Tran Thu Huong confided: “For a long time, I have cherished the idea of how to bring nursery rhymes to children. Because the nursery rhymes from my childhood in my hometown, Que Hiep, in the midland district of Que Son, have been deeply ingrained in our hearts during summer afternoons, bright moonlit nights along with many memorable games such as: “Hands with hands without hands”, “Casting coconut trees”, “Dragon snakes up to the clouds”, “Ask Cuoi where to go”…
One day, during a break between classes, I saw my students playing folk games in the school yard but they did not know how to read or sing any nursery rhymes. The idea of bringing nursery rhymes for the children to play and sing at the same time became more compelling. And I put my heart into this work, considering it a gift for my students…”.
She has set to music many poems such as: "Baby looks at the sea" (Tran Manh Hao), "Baby is a pilot" (Vu Duy Thong), "Alarm clock" (Hoai Khanh), "Grandma's moon" (Nguyen Luong Hieu)... and they are loved by children.
Taking advantage of this, she searched for and collected a number of short nursery rhymes that could be played while singing. From there, she used rhythms and melodies that carried the breath of modern music, close to the children, breathing life into those nursery rhymes, making them love both the melody and the lyrics in the nursery rhymes.
Thus, 15 nursery rhyme songs were born, filled with love for children and nostalgia for childhood. Some of the quite cheerful and funny songs in the DVD Album “I love nursery rhymes” by musician Tran Thu Huong include “Planting beans, planting eggplants”, “Ve con kien”, “Ong thunder, oto”, “Tay dep”, “Meo con washing face”…
Many songs with short, concise lyrics easily enter the hearts of young children, such as the song "Mr. Thunder, Mr. Lightning" with such lovely lyrics: " Mr. Thunder, Mr. Lightning/ He shouted loudly/ He exploded randomly/ Broke pots and pans/ Broke all my dishes/ I dragged him out and beat him/ He gave me one whip/ He gave me two whips/ He fled to heaven/ Oh Mr. Thunder, Mr. Lightning !". Or like the song "Going Out in the Sun" with lyrics like a loving advice and reminder: " Look at the warbler/ It perches on a xoan tree branch/ It calls out to those who are good/ Then listen to it/ When going out in the sun, you must have a hat/ To cover them/ Whoever doesn't listen/ Will get a headache and runny nose "...
Music nourishes the soul
Nursery rhymes are poems and verses sung by children while playing traditional games. Many of them have meaning, but some have no meaning but have rhymes and are especially funny and humorous.
Putting music into a nursery rhyme seems simple but is actually very difficult, because it is necessary to keep the core and main idea of the nursery rhyme while helping children to hum the melody, follow the rhythm, and improvise with the climaxes when playing.
Talking about this, musician Tran Thu Huong said: “Nursery songs inherently only have rhythm, no melody or pitch. Therefore, when writing a song, I often rely on the core lyrics, inserting a few ideas that are in harmony with the nursery rhyme, with gentle meanings, contributing to educating children's personality and aesthetics without losing the nature and main idea of that nursery rhyme.”
The valuable thing is that, after finishing writing the nursery rhyme songs, musician Tran Thu Huong used her own money to make the DVD Album “I love nursery rhymes” consisting of 10 songs. From the harmony, arrangement, singers, filming locations, actors participating in each MV, filming, post-production… it was a great effort in terms of time, budget, and mind that this female musician had to overcome.
But she said, when she completed the "children's nursery rhyme project", all the difficulties and hardships seemed to disappear, leaving only the happiness of hearing the children sing, play, and seeing the radiant smiles of childhood in the music garden.
Currently, the DVD Album “Em yeu dong dao” by musician Tran Thu Huong has been broadcast on many radio and television stations nationwide, including Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Binh Phuoc, Lam Dong and Quang Nam radio and television stations, her hometown.
The musician has also been invited to interact with children on the topic “I love nursery rhymes” in radio and television programs in many localities. That is the way the musician from Quang Nam province conveys his love for childhood through nursery rhymes.
Hopefully, the story of bringing nursery rhymes to children by musician Tran Thu Huong will spread more and more, becoming a valuable spiritual food to help nurture the soul and love of music of children.
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