 Music
for Babies CDs
The Music for Babies CD series is a unique and special collection
of CD baby music for calming a crying baby, getting baby to sleep,
and for fostering enhanced brain development in infants. Music for
Babies is also great for a toddler or older child. Music for Babies
CDs are appreciated by any new mother concerned with nurturing a
crying baby, getting baby to sleep, and creating a peaceful, relaxing
environment that provides a sense of safety, security and comfort.
With this CD baby music playing in the background, your baby can
feel even more emotionally secure and safe, held close to your body
while you gently dance around a room or rock slowly in a rocking
chair. Incorporating the Sleepy Baby™ CD into a bedtime ritual
can help children to calm down and make the difficult transition
into sleep. Music for Babies is also a perfect remedy for stressed
and tired mothers. Simply having this music playing in the background
can profoundly change the way you feel.
More than Music
Advanced Brain Technologies has combined extensive clinical experience
with the latest neuroscience and music research to create the Music
for Babies CD series. Created through a collaboration of experts
across a broad range of scientific and artistic disciplines, each
volume helps children achieve their extraordinary and unique potential.
Just as food nourishes a baby's growing body, the elements of music
- melody, tone and harmony - nourish a baby's rapidly developing
brain. Even before children are born, research shows that music
has a beneficial effect on the network of neurons that will be the
foundation of their later learning, language development and music
ability. Music for Babies fosters the brain growth crucial to healthy
young minds. Created in association with the National Academy for
Child Development, each volume has been carefully crafted to provide
the kind of musical nourishment that scientific study has shown
will actively support optimum brain development in a child's early
years. By playing this music, you help build a strong foundation
for the innate potential of your infant or toddler. Uniquely appropriate
for children from birth to 36 months, Music for Babies is equally
enjoyable for older listeners.
Music for Babies provides natural, acoustic, full spectrum sound
(20-20,000 Hz) to promote neurological development. The subtle,
soothing melodies are the perfect thing to drown out disruptive
sounds and toxic noise present in nearly every home - a real threat
to hearing health and a baby's sense of well-being - and to prevent
auditory-based learning, attention, and developmental problems in
young children.
These rich and resonant acoustic recordings feature harp, celeste,
violin, viola, cello, clarinet and flute masterfully played by the
award-winning musicians of The Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble under
the musical direction of Richard Lawrence. Each volume includes
classical and traditional folk music arranged for children, as well
as instrumental versions of well-known lullabies and nursery rhymes.
Read the Fascinating
Story of How these CDs were Created
The Music for Babies CD Series contains the following CDs:
| Sleepy Baby™ |
Four psychoacoustic treatments were utilized in Sleepy Baby™.
The volume softens track by track from the beginning selection
to the end. This helps the child settle down and drift off
to sleep. It also means a parent can simply leave the music
on and not be concerned about turning off the CD player when
the baby goes to sleep. The tempo gradually slows from a range
of 70-40 beats per minute to encourage the baby's systems
to slow down. Third, the frequency range of notes progressively
gets lower. For example, a clarinet and viola are used in
the arrangements for Sleepy Baby to enrich lower frequencies.
And fourth, the music sounds progressively farther away. Combining
these mellow sounds and treatments helps to produce a calming
and restful feeling and helps to induce sleep. |
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| Peaceful
Baby™ |
contains very delicate and beautiful music to help calm and
relax a little one, creating an environment for a more peaceful
mood. As with Sleepy Baby, relaxing improvised melodies were
used. Prior experience has shown that improvised playing encourages
a deeper brain wave state in the performer that extends to
the listener as well. Slower tempos and rhythms of 50-90 beats
per minute were selected to encourage entrainment. Instruments
on this album include harp, strings, flute and celeste, all
played gently to have a calming effect. Additionally, a treatment
called frequency equalization was used to remove any high
frequencies that might alert or startle a child. Pieces such
as Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, Lambs Are Sleeping, and the Gaelic
Cradle Song were arranged to engage a child's attention and
gradually slow down body rhythms to a peaceful state. |
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| Cheerful
Baby™ |
was produced to help improve a baby's mood. This album has
a more upbeat tempo with 60-120 beats per minute to energize
brain function. Instruments were used and arrangements were
created for their effect on alertness. A rich spatial environment
has been created not only to develop listening abilities,
but to encourage the development of other senses as well.
Subtle, unexpected arrangements and sound that moves from
side to side, stimulates active listening. Music selected
for this album has a rich, full spectrum sound, particularly
in the higher frequencies that are known to charge the brain. |
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| Playful
Baby™ |
became an opportunity to stimulate listening in an expanded
way, with a variety of sounds that compliment the music. When
you hear "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" you will also hear
the sound of a lamb. On Bizet's Gallop, you will also hear
the sound of horses' hooves with the sound going from one
side of the room to the other as the horses gallop past. And
yes, that's a real Cukoo you are hearing in the Toy Symphony!
The variety of sounds woven in with the music, ranging from
80-140 beats per minute, is designed to stimulate active listening.
In addition the sounds and instruments are continually moving
from side to side to develop spatial awareness. |
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Listen to Music for Babies CDs:
Sleepy Baby
Peaceful Baby
Cheerful Baby
Playful Baby
Order Music for Babies
4 CD Series
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