Andean Lullaby

A gentle lullaby inspired by the Quechua and Aymara mothers of the Peruvian Andes, who have long sung their children to sleep with simple, repeating melodies drawn from the mountains around them. Much traditional Andean music, including many of these lullabies, is built on a pentatonic, five-note scale rather than the seven-note scales more familiar in Western music, a sound closely tied to instruments like the quena flute and the charango, a small stringed instrument once traditionally crafted from an armadillo shell.