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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in sol-fa notation (d r m f s l t d = do re me fa so la ti do)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in ABC notation, C major:
It is also viewable in sheet music notation, typeset using GNU LilyPond, from the LilyPond music collection.
The melody of Baa Baa Black Sheep is very similar, and a variant has been used for singing the alphabet "ab cd ef g, hi jk lmno p,...". Several famous compositions are based on it:
(Ah! I would tell you, Mom
what causes my torment.
Papa wants me to reason
Like an adult.
Me, I say that candy
Is worth more than reason.)
Variants also exist:
*antienne = texte répétitif et lassant comme une ritournelle
The English lyrics are normally as follows:
The English words are from the poem in couplet form, "The Star", by Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and her sister Jane Taylor (1783-1824) first published in 1806. The Alphabet song is also set to the melody. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a song sung to children and infants.
A transliteration of the English lyrics into deliberately obfuscated English was cited in the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak. Though it rhymes well, this version is difficult to sing as it does not fit the traditional melody.
A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', spoken by the Mad Hatter, appears in Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson ( January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll was a British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonde's Alice's Adventures in WonderlandJohn Tenniel's illustration for "A Mad Tea-Party", 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The tale is fraught wi. It reads:
The piece is brackets is not mentioned in the book, but in quoting the poem people usually add it in. The Bat was the nickname of one of the Dons at Oxford, a friend of Carroll's and the Liddell family. In fact it is one of the few parodies in the Alice books which the original is still widely known.
A Latin translation appears in Mary Dodge 's When life is young (1894):
Another parody was created for Sesame StreetA Celebration of Me, Grover showing much of the main cast of Sesame Street''. Left to right, a penguin, Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird, Grover, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster Sesame Street is an American educational television program for young children, which led the . In a short skit, Muppet composer Don MusicMuppets Sesame Street characters Don Music is a character on the children's television show Sesame Street that tried to compose songs, but couldn't think of the final line, thus getting frustrated and banging his head on his piano. Don Music debuted in 19, overcoming writer's blockWriter's block is the state where a writer loses confidence in his/her creativity to the point where further writing is difficult. Dramatic depictions of writer's block include: Barton Fink Shakespeare In Love''., struggles to pen the nursery rhyme. The product of his effort is:
Yet another parody by Ian D. Bush writer.
