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folk-song|ˈfəʊksɒŋ|
Earlier folk's song.
[f. folk + song n., after G. volkslied.]
A song originating from the common people; also, a modern imitation of such a song; also collect. sing.
1847Howitt's Jrnl. 17 Apr. 212/1 The Three Little Roses. A German Folk's song. Translated by Mary Howitt. 1870W. E. A. Axon (title) Folk-Song & Folk-Speech of Lancashire. 1871Cornh. Mag. Nov. 573 In a large collection of folk-songs from all the chief Dravidian languages, not one may be called immoral, not one cheerful. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 283/1 It was not till the publication of Allan Ramsay's Ever⁓green and Tea Table Miscellany, and of Bishop Percy's Reliques, that a serious effort was made to recover Scotch and English folk-songs from the recitation of the old people who still knew them by heart. 1883Grove's Dict. Mus. III. 584/2 In some countries of Europe the development of the Song can be followed from the primitive form of folk-song to the highest type of artistic composition. 1907C. J. Sharp (title) English Folk-Song. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 272/2 Folklore or folksong..belong to such small, scattered, isolated groups. 1965M. Morse Unattached v. 180 Folk-song concerts. 1966Listener 18 Aug. 236/2 That passage from Ecclesiastes which Pete Seeger has turned into a beautiful folk song.
Hence ˈfolk-songish, -songy adjs., resembling or relating to folk-song.
1925P. A. Scholes 2nd Bk. Gramophone Rec. 154 The dignity of Jupiter in a fine folk-songish strain. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 151 Vaughan Williams..whose style..without necessarily being folk-songy in the picturesque way, is intimately connected with the inflections and mood of English folk music. 1959Times 11 May 3/7 I'm sure that the folk-songy sounds, the flattened leading notes and so on, are as artificial as a Tudor Tea Shoppe. |