A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
29-625: The House That Jack Built may refer to: " This Is the House That Jack Built ", English nursery rhyme Books [ edit ] The House That Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie , a 1958 picture book by Antonio Frasconi The House That Jack built , a 1878 picture book by Randolph Caldecott The House That Jack Built , a 1999 picture book by Gavin Bishop The House That Jack Built ,
58-507: A 1951 Australian play by George Farwell The House That Jack Built (1869 play) , an 1869 Australian play by William Mower Akhurst The House That Jack Built , a Canadian play c. 1988 by Margaret Hollingsworth Music [ edit ] The House That Jack Built (album) , by American singer Jesca Hoop "The House That Jack Built" (Aretha Franklin song) , written by Bobby Lance and Fran Robbins and performed by Aretha Franklin "The House That Jack Built" (Alan Price song) ,
87-476: A 1967 song by Alan Price "The House That Jack Built", a 1983 song by Tracie Young "The House Jack Built", a song by Metallica from the 1996 album Load Other [ edit ] "The House That Jack Built", a 1966 episode of The Avengers Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The House That Jack Built . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
116-429: A 2001 book by Linda Evans Drama, television, and film [ edit ] The House That Jack Built , original title of the 1920 musical Mary by Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach and Louis Hirsch The House That Jack Built (1900 film) The House That Jack Built (1967 film) The House That Jack Built (2013 film) The House That Jack Built (2018 film) The House That Jack Built (1951 play) ,
145-436: A child fall asleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. Until the modern era, lullabies were usually recorded only incidentally in written sources. The Roman nurses' lullaby, "Lalla, Lalla, Lalla, aut dormi, aut lacta",
174-582: A doodle doo ", which date from at least the late 16th century. Nursery rhymes with 17th-century origins include, " Jack Sprat " (1639), " The Grand Old Duke of York " (1642), " Lavender's Blue " (1672) and " Rain Rain Go Away " (1687). The first English collection, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book , were published by Mary Cooper in London in 1744, with such songs becoming known as "Tommy Thumb's songs". A copy of
203-612: A fresh angle and humour into a familiar tale. During California's shelter in place order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic , Freeman Ng created The House We Sheltered In , a picture book that could be freely downloaded and printed out on home printers. The popularity of the rhyme can be seen in its use in a variety of other cultural contexts, including: Nursery rhyme From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes began to be recorded in English plays, and most popular rhymes date from
232-588: A nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle is " As I was going to St Ives ", which dates to 1730. About half of the currently recognised "traditional" English rhymes were known by the mid-18th century. More English rhymes were collected by Joseph Ritson in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus (1784), published in London by Joseph Johnson . In the early 19th century, printed collections of rhymes began to spread to other countries, including Robert Chambers ' Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826) and in
261-572: Is an example of an increasingly deeply nested relative clause . The last version, "This is the horse...", would be quite difficult to untangle if the previous ones were not present. See the Noun Phrase for more details about postmodification of the noun phrase in this manner. The rhyme continues to be a popular choice for illustrated children's books, with recent examples by Simms Taback and Quentin Blake showing how illustrators can introduce
290-816: Is now known as) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1806–1808). The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Halliwell-Phillipps ' The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities (historical), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs (lullabies). By
319-435: Is recorded in a scholium on Persius and may be the oldest to survive. Many medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus take the form of a lullaby, including "Lullay, my liking, my dere son, my sweting" and may be versions of contemporary lullabies. However, most of those used today date from the 17th century. For example, a well-known lullaby such as " Rock-a-bye Baby ", could not be found in records until
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#1732772846629348-552: The 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book , were published by Mary Cooper in 1744. Publisher John Newbery 's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle (London, 1780). The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies , intended to help
377-487: The House That Jack Built " is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale . It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index type 2035. This is perhaps the most common set of modern lyrics: Some versions use "cheese" instead of "malt", "judge" instead of "priest", "rooster" instead of "cock", the archaic past tense form "crew" instead of "crowed", "shook" instead of "tossed", or "chased" in place of "killed". Also in some versions
406-467: The United States, Mother Goose's Melodies (1833). From this period, the origins and authors of rhymes are sometimes known—for instance, in " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " which combines the melody of an 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a 19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor entitled "The Star" used as lyrics. Early folk song collectors also often collected (what
435-537: The early and mid-20th centuries, this was a form of bowdlerisation , concerned with some of the more violent elements of nursery rhymes and led to the formation of organisations like the British "Society for Nursery Rhyme Reform". Psychoanalysts such as Bruno Bettelheim strongly criticised this revisionism, because it weakened their usefulness to both children and adults as ways of symbolically resolving issues and it has been argued that revised versions may not perform
464-452: The functions of catharsis for children, or allow them to imaginatively deal with violence and danger. In the late 20th century, revisionism of nursery rhymes became associated with the idea of political correctness . Most attempts to reform nursery rhymes on this basis appear to be either very small scale, light-hearted updating, like Felix Dennis's When Jack Sued Jill – Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times (2006), or satires written as if from
493-477: The horse, the hound, and the horn are left out and the rhyme ends with the farmer. It is a cumulative tale that does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked. It has been argued that
522-490: The ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes' book The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930), in which she linked famous nursery rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence. She posited that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded historical narrative, propaganda or covert protest, and did not believe that they were written simply for entertainment. There have been several attempts across
551-399: The late-18th century when it was printed by John Newbery (c. 1765). A French poem, similar to "Thirty days hath September", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century. From the later Middle Ages, there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia . From the mid-16th century, they began to be recorded in English plays. " Pat-a-cake " is one of
580-578: The latter is held in the British Library . John Newbery 's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose 's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London, 1780). These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles , proverbs , ballads , lines of Mummers ' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals. One example of
609-410: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_House_That_Jack_Built&oldid=1251801466 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages This Is the House That Jack Built " This Is
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#1732772846629638-717: The mid-sixteenth century. There is a possible reference to the song in The Boston New Letter of 12 April 1739 and the line: "This is the man all forlorn, &c". However, it did not appear in print until it was included in Nurse Truelove's New-Year's-Gift, or the Book of Books for Children , printed in London in 1755. It was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878 which proved to be extremely popular. Many of
667-478: The oldest surviving English nursery rhymes. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas d'Urfey 's play The Campaigners from 1698. Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including " To market, to market " and " Cock
696-480: The point of view of political correctness to condemn reform. The controversy in Britain in 1986 over changing the language of " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep " because it was alleged in the popular press, that it was seen as racially dubious, was based only on a rewriting of the rhyme in one private nursery, as an exercise for the children. It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development. In
725-504: The rhyme is derived from an Aramaic (Jewish) hymn Chad Gadya ( lit. , "One Young Goat") in Sepher Haggadah , first printed in 1590; but although this is an early cumulative tale that may have inspired the form, the lyrics bear little relationship. It was suggested by James Orchard Halliwell that the reference to the "priest all shaven and shorn" indicates that the English version is probably very old, presumably as far back as
754-652: The scenes in his pictures are of northern Shropshire where he spent his youth. Cherrington Manor , a timber-framed house in North East Shropshire , with a malt house in the grounds, is believed locally to have inspired Caldecott's depiction of the House that Jack built, although the Ralph Caldecott Society states that Brook House Farm in Hamner is more likely. Each sentence in the story
783-492: The time of Sabine Baring-Gould 's A Book of Nursery Songs (1895), folklore was an academic study full of comments and footnotes. A professional anthropologist, Andrew Lang (1844–1912) produced The Nursery Rhyme Book in 1897. The early years of the 20th century are notable for the illustrations of children's books, including Randolph Caldecott 's Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (1909) and Arthur Rackham 's Mother Goose (1913). The definitive study of English rhymes remains
812-405: The work of Iona and Peter Opie . Many nursery rhymes have been argued to have hidden meanings and origins. John Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764–1842), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were written in "Low Saxon", a hypothetical early form of Dutch. He then "translated" them back into English, revealing in particular a strong tendency to anti-clericalism . Many of
841-479: The world to revise nursery rhymes (along with fairy tales and popular songs). As recently as the late 18th century, rhymes like " Little Robin Redbreast " were occasionally cleaned up for a young audience. In the late 19th century, the major concern seems to have been violence and crime, which led some children's publishers in the United States like Jacob Abbot and Samuel Goodrich to change Mother Goose rhymes. In
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