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23 wrz 2024 · Folk music is a type of traditional and generally rural music that originally was passed down through families and other small social groups. Typically, folk music, like folk literature, lives in oral tradition; it is learned through hearing rather than reading.
The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s.
23 wrz 2024 · Musical studies concern folk genres and styles, as well as individual folk songs—how they originated, and whether, how, and why they changed when diffused. Theories of folk music have been beclouded by the difficulties in recognizing, isolating, and defining a phenomenon as elusive and complex as folk music.
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music, or roots music.
The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally within communities, but print and subsequently audio recordings have since become the primary means of ...
2 sty 2020 · The melodies in many folk songs are from an age before the establishment of the present system of tonality. Whilst some European and Scandinavian folk songs are in particular keys, many can be thought of as being based around ‘modes’ or in some cases ‘pentatonic’ scales.
23 wrz 2024 · Music from art music culture, such as Franz Schubert’s songs “Heidenröslein” (“Little Moorland Rose”) or “The Linden Tree” and arias from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, found their way into folk tradition.
