Why do the ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep all have the same tune?

Answer 1

yes, the common tune that is shared between Twinkle T. L. S., Baa B.B.S., and the ABC song is a Mozart arrangement. The three children's songs mentioned above are Mother Goose nursery rhymes. I believe it was in the 1600's when peasant life in Europe was quite common, these peasant children never received any kind of an academic education. Since, the peasant parents were uneducated as well they use the craft of story telling, specifically nursery rhymes, to teach their children common lessons. Without a way to manually record the nursery rhymes it was easier to remember them by 1) making the words rhyme or 2) putting the words to a common tune. We still use some of these nursery rhymes and songs today to inspire our toddlers and preschoolers to ask questions about the world around them and to help them memorize important things like their ABC's. All thanks to some European peasants! You could always research on the Internet to get exact details and a time line on this occurrence.

Answer 2

Twinkle Twinkle Little action picture star is a a range of of song to Baa Baa Black Sheep. TTLS replaced into written by Mozart even as he replaced into like 4 years previous or something. ABC has that song because someone needed a properly generic song to educate the alaphabet to toddlers with and that geared up the bill i guess.

Answer 3

They're all sung to the same tune as a kind of mnemonic (memory) device. In the old days many tunes were recycled. Another good example is the Christmas song "What Child Is This?" sung to the tune of "Greensleeves." It's legal to reuse songs in the folk tradition, so there are many such cases.

People would just take tunes they knew and make up new words. No recording industry back then to sue you for copyright infringement.

Answer 4

These songs were made for children 50 + years ago by a school teacher back when school teachers were rare and only boys went to school..... and you are asking why they all carry the same toon? Boys don't like to alter or change much... that why the teacher changed the words and stuck with the tune.

Answer 5

It's easier for little kids to remember songs when they don't have to remember the different tunes that they go to. So if there is just one tune to remember, the only other thing they have to focus on is the words and for a little kid, words are easier to remember than tunes.

Answer 6

It is easier to catch on to and sing. Have you ever tried to sing a song that you didn't know the tune to. YOu sounded like a goof ball then didn't you? Well, its the same with nursery rhymes.

Answer 7

Because they all started as rhymes, not songs. When people later decided to put the familiar rhyme to music, they chose a tune everyone already knew.

Answer 8

no better tune to work with back then and they made 3 songs from one tune that is creative. I know that my daughter loves all those songs and those where the ones that used to put her to sleep when I sang them to her. That kept me from having to sing the same song over and over and over

Answer 9

because since they are so familiar to little kids, the kids only have to worry about memorizing the words rather than the words and a new tune for each of the songs...

Answer 10

THEY"RE KIDS SONGS!!! Whaddya want, complex multipart harmonies and subsonic tones? The easier it is to remember the tune, the better when it comes to this age.

Unless the kid is Mozart, in which case you should use complex multipart harmonies and subsonic tones.