Musicology Annotation << Back From the Lullaby to the Genre of Children’s Opera Aminat S. Mishaeva This work presents a wholesome picture of vocal music for children of the works Kabardino-Balkaria composers, which has formed within the last 60 years. This sphere of intellectual and artistic is varied in the aspect of genres. Starting from a free arrangement of folklore tunes each composer has found his own original «handwrite» in the genres of song. In the next period the musical language became more complicated and a noticeable step away from the principles of refrain form opened an opportunity of a more developed works of vocalic sequels and operas for children. Key words: ritual games, songs for children, evolution of genre, folkloriation, vocal opus, opera for children. E-mail: mail@skgii.ru