Some are children"s songs; somecombineEuropeanfolktuneswithHebrewlyrics; somecome frommilitary bands and otherswerewritten by poets such as Naomi ShemerandChaimNachmanBialik.
He IS American music." Most American children grow up hearing and singing some of Irving Berlin's songs.
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Among them are the folkloric tangos and chacareras of his native Argentina, though 20th Century European modernism, counterpoint, minimalism, drones, complex meters, children's songs, and human voices including his own untrained but emotional delivery are all featured heavily.
Today's primary school children tend to learn songs and lines for a play, as well as useful tools like times tables, says Mark Brown, head teacher of St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Axminster, Devon, but rarely whole poems, as their grandparents would have done.