Music for Babies CDs

The Music for Babies series of CDs make exciting, unusual and creative baby shower gifts. These baby music CDs are unique and special baby gifts for a newborn baby and are also great gifts for a new mom.

Created in association with the National Academy for Child Development, the elements of music - melody, tone and harmony - nourish and enhance a baby's rapidly developing brain. Sleepy Baby, Peaceful Baby, Cheerful Baby and Playful Baby CDs include classical and traditional folk music arranged for babies and children, as well as instrumental versions of well-known lullabies and nursery rhymes. The Music for Babies CDs are the best baby gifts that will be appreciated by any new mother concerned about giving her newborn baby an optimal environment for brain development as well as relaxation, a peaceful environment and getting baby to sleep.

By giving these unique baby gifts, you help build a strong foundation for the innate potential of the newborn baby, infant or toddler. Music for Babies CDs are uniquely appropriate and valuable baby gifts for newborn babies, toddlers, and older children. read more...

Unique Collection of Baby Music

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.   

Peaceful Baby™

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.

Cheerful Baby™

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.

Playful Baby™

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.
 

Listen to Music for Babies CDs
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Sleepy Baby

Peaceful Baby

Cheerful Baby

Playful Baby