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A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children’s songs have been recorded and studied in some cultures more than others, they appear to be universal in human society. ==Categories== Iona and Peter Opie, pioneers of the academic study of children’s culture, divided children’s songs into two classes: those taught to children by adults, which when part of a traditional culture they saw as nursery rhymes, and those that children taught to each other, which formed part of the independent culture of childhood.〔I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'' (Granada, 1977), p. 21.〕 A further use of the term ''children's song'' is for songs written for the entertainment or education of children, usually in the modern era. In practice none of these categories is entirely discrete, since, for example, children often reuse and adapt nursery rhymes, and many songs now considered as traditional were deliberately written by adults for commercial ends. The Opies further divided nursery rhymes into a number of groups, including〔I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 12–19.〕 *Amusements (including action songs) *Counting rhymes *Lullabies *Riddles Playground or children’s street rhymes they sub-divided into two major groups: those associated with games and those that were entertainments, with the second category including〔I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'' (Granada, 1977), p. 37.〕 *Improper verses *Jingles *Joke rhymes *Nonsense verse *Macabre rhymes *Popular songs *Parodies *Slogans *Tongue-twisters In addition, since the advent of popular music publication in the nineteenth century, a large number of songs have been produced for and often adopted by children. Many of these imitate the form of nursery rhymes, and a number have come to be accepted as such. They can be seen to have arisen from a number of sources, including *Film *Publishing *Recording 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「children's song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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