Nitty Music plays on Cello, Lightly Row from Book 01 of the Suzuki Cello Method.
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Cellos from Luthiers Clar.
Ms. Accompanist Piano Accompaniment.
Lightly Row is an arrangement by Shinichi Suzuki of the German folk song Hänschen klein, original lyrics by Franz Wiedemann. The third piece of the first volume of the Suzuki Method in the first position.
It originally spoke of a young man who ventures out into the world and returns as a man to his family. It gained much more popularity around 1900, when the following abbreviated version was adopted as one of the first songs to be taught to young children, either at home or in kindergarten. Now it is about a small child, who leaves but immediately returns home, since his mother, left alone, began to cry.
The melody of this song is also used in the simple Mother Goose rhyme of “Lightly Row”, and other versions are the nursery rhymes “Little bird, have you heard” and “Baby-bye, there’s a fly”, which in turn are perhaps related to the song “Warm Kitty” (made famous as “Soft Kitty” on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory). It is the theme song for the 1977 war film Cross of Iron. In the German dubbed version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the HAL 9000 computer sings “Hänschen klein” (instead of “Daisy Bell”) while in rest, possibly because in 1958 Konrad Zuse employees had programmed a Z22 computer to sing it in a demo.