berceuse

One piece from the Volumes through which Keetman encouraged musical imagination and intelligence was her Berceuse, in Volume 5 of Musik fur Kinder, No.

An anecdote describes how Chopin helped quiet rowdy children by first improvising a story and then lulling them to sleep with a berceuse (lullaby)- after which he woke everyone with an ear-piercing chord.

The tracks are "Au Fondu Lac" (3:10), "Vert" (0:26), "Des Promesses" (2:59), "La Berceuse du Vieux Voyageur" (3:05), "Si T'as Fini Avec Moi" (3:52), "Violet" (0:29), "Ouvre La Porte" (3:23), "Assis Dans La Fenetre de Ma Chambre" (1:40), "Les Jours Sont Longs" (4:43), "Valse du Vacher" (3:34), "La Valse de Gene Billeaudeaux" (1:56), "A Saint-Martin" (3:44), "Mon Tour Va Venir" (3:33), "Bleu" (1:46), "Toujours en Mouvement" (3:22), and "Rouge" (0:48).

Lullabies, or berceuse, a French word which means "cradle song," is believed to have emerged from the 19th century.

Finally, Stephen Hough celebrates the Chopin centenary with a collection of late masterpieces, the Barcarolle and Berceuse, some Mazurkas and Nocturnes and the centre piece is the 3rd Sonata.

In 1791, Le Brun called Mme de Bonneuil a "coquette surannee,"an "adroite friponne,"who "trompe l'Amour et croit tromper le Temps." Perhaps even more to the point, for Le Brun, Chenier's Camille is a "berceuse douairiere"with aristocratic pretentions, whose "l'antique jeunesse / Plait encore a l'amour dupe" (Buisson 1.401-07, for Lebrun, v 404-05).

Joseph Honein reverts back to cellular simplicity with kidney-bean-shaped cells in his oil-on-canvas "Berceuse," while Arwan Seifeddine's "Origin," rendered in glowing neon-emerald greens, communicates a similar amoebic-like purism.