To cite this publication, use: Koudinov and children, Алфавитная песня. Russian Alphabet song for children. ABC Songs Journal, Volume 6, Article 1 (2013) http://abc-songs.org/6/1/
Twelve Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, Maman by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a melody source for classical ABC song for children (Alphabet Song), baby nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, that we also used for creating original lyrics songs for Letters A, B, C, D, E, 123 counting song in English, as well as Alphabet songs of Russian and Hebrew languages. Here, we report new Alphabet song in Russian language on a melody of Ah vous dirai-je, Maman.
Music phrases two, three and four of Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (dated 1781 or 1782) [1] is used as a melody for ABC song for children or Alphabet Song [2], baby nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little Star [3], and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep [4].
We used extended parts of Mozart composition for original ABC songs for different letters of English Alphabet, such as Letter B [5], Letter A, C, D, E songs and English 123 counting song to help little children to master counting to 20, Hebrew Alphabet song (to be reported elsewhere).
Here, we report original nursery rhymes lyrics of Russian Alphabet adapted to traditional melody of English ABC Song.
NURSERY RHYMES ORIGINAL LYRICS
Here, we re-used calming slow beat musical composition of public domain music composition by Mozart for new ABC song of Russian language or Alphabet song (rus: Алфавитная песня, песня Русский алфавит, Алфавит русского языка).
А Б В Г Д Е Ё
Ж З И Й КРАТКОЕ
К Л М Н О
П Р С Т У Ф Х
Ц Ч Ш Щ
Ъ Ы
Ь Э Ю Я
Знаю Алфавит даже я!
LYRICS TRANSLATION
Original lyrics of our new Alphabet song in Russian language can be translated into English as follows:
AA BE VE GE DE IE YO
ZZE ZE II I KRATKOE
KA EL EM EN O
PE ER ES TE UY FE HA
CHE CE SHA SiHA
TVERDY ZNAK EE
MIAGKY ZNAK, IE IU IA
Even I know this alphabet
Note that each line of text in Russian language corresponds to the same line count of lyrics translation.
LYRICS TRANSLITERATION
Original lyrics of our new Alphabet song in Russian language can be transliterated into English as follows:
AA BE VE GE DE IE YO
ZZE ZE II I KRATKOE
KA EL EM EN O
PE ER ES TE UY FE HA
CHE CE SHA SiHA
TVERDY ZNAK EE
MIAGKY ZNAK, IE IU IA
Znaiy Alfavit daze ia
Note that each line of text of original Russian language lyrics corresponds to the same line of transliterated lyrics.
REFERENCES
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", ABC song or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1781 or 1782) Wikipedia article
2. Play along piano tutorial ABC song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Super Simple Songs Journal, 2012 Volume 1, Video publication 1 Full text and video
3. Play along piano tutorial Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Super Simple Songs Journal, 2012, Volume 1, Video publication 2 Full text and video
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. Wikipedia, as seen 27 August 2013 Wikipedia article
5. Koudinov and children. Letter B song. Original new ABCs for the XXI century. ABC songs volume 1, video 1 Full text and video
To cite this publication, use: Kudinov and children, Алфавитная песня. Russian Alphabet song for children. ABC Songs Journal, Volume 6, Article 1 (2013) http://abc-songs.org/6/1/
DETAILED VIDEO INFORMATION
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video category: preschool education, for ages 1 year and up ; video language: Russian
video song: Original song by Koudinov and Children, written 26 August 2013, Originally published as ABC Songs Journal, 27 August 2013, Volume 6, Song 1
video length: 2 min 11 sec
video codec: Windows Media Audio/Video file ; video bitrate: 6000.0 Kbps 25 fps ; video resolution: 1280x720 for High Definition video playback
Audio codec: Windows Media Audio ; Audio bitrate: 320.0 Kbps ; Audio mode: Stereo, 44.1 Khz, 16 bit Hi-Fi
Audio source: 44.1 KHz 16 bit high fidelity digital masters .wav files with no compression
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