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Meaning of "folksong"

Folksong (noun): A traditional song that is typically passed down orally from generation to generation within a specific cultural group. Folk songs often reflect the history, customs, and values of a community
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Old telling and folksong.
Hundreds of his genuine folksong records pressed by commercial recording companies sold like hot cakes.
The character of a folksong.
They promoted American folksong by including folksongs in their concerts and broadcasts.
Unlimited number of original compositions composed in the spirit of a folksong or folksong arrangement.
That was a folksong from Thessaloniki.
Arrangement and expansion of a traditional Kenyan folksong.
One among them will sing the folksong and it will be chorused by rest.
It sounds almost like a German folksong.
The song appears in many American folksong collections in widely variant forms.
I loved the sound of her voice when she sang me the Indian folksong.
This folksong was collected by Helen Creighton.
There is a famous Tibetan folksong about it.
Folksong Wedding for saxophone.
Based on an English folksong.

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A profile of Québec folksong composer and accordionist Alfred Montmarquette.
Burleigh and Kramer and a Russian folksong arr.
Learning folksong class every night is cancel, but no one cared.
I like this song, it is kind of a folksong now.
For example, Radio Veritas sponsored a folksong festival in which competing groups paid a fee to perform.
In his remaining years he was primarily engaged with choral works based on South-Bohemian folksong.
A self-taught man, he quickly learned and mastered the folksong repertoire while still an adolescent.
Dancing, folksong and the colour red of women 's wedding saris dominate the days of Teej.
Arirang, a style of traditional Korean folksong.
The set includes Britten 's folksong arrangements, but excludes his Purcell realisations.
The harmonica in the background is playing the Russian folksong " Stenka Razin.
The folksong ‘ Cockles and Mussels ' has become something of an unofficial anthem of Dublin city.
There is a famous Tibetan folksong about it . Wow.
They inspired a similar folksong collection by Falla 's friend and collaborator Federico García Lorca.
Greensleeves, a traditional English Folksong.
Helen Creighton, folklorist and folksong collector, is profiled at this Library and Archives Canada website.
The title is taken from the British folksong " John Barleycorn.
Folksong arrangement, folksongs.
The simple melody and strophic form imitate the ‘ Stornello ' style, a typical folksong of central Italy.
It 's a folksong called Lorelei, based on a German legend.
A wonderful, Icelandic folksong.
Post title inspired by folksong “ Where have all the flowers gone ” by Peter, Paul & Mary.
But it 's an Irish folksong.
After 1900 he was the head of the folksong collection project of the Russian Geographical Society.
In the 19th century, the hymn became a sacred folksong.
Jänta å ja ' is a folksong from Värmland, published by Fredrik August Dahlgren.
Paterson wrote the lyrics of the much-loved folksong Waltzing Matilda in 1895.
Ethnic, Folksong arrangement.
In 1977 he made his recording début with the folksong group Vårsøg, which released three records.
It soon became a folksong with more than 20 versions and was sung even after the 1848 revolution.
The " Capriccio in G major on the folksong ' Acht Sauschneider müssen sein ' ", Hoarb.
Classic, Folksong arrangement.
Spanish folksong arrangement "?
But as the old American folksong says, “ Oh, when will they ever learn?
Classic, Ethnic, Folksong arrangement, various.

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