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  2. List of European folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in ...

  3. Folk music - Wikipedia

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    Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the ... Traditional folk music of European origin has been present in Canada since the arrival of ...

  4. Category:European folk music - Wikipedia

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    Category: European folk music. 3 languages. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina folk music (4 C, 6 P) Bulgarian folk music (7 C, 1 P) C. Croatian folk music (2 C, 11 P) D.

  5. Culture of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Folk music is embedded in an unwritten, oral tradition, but was increasingly transcribed from the nineteenth century onwards. Many classical composers used folk melodies, and folk music continues to influence popular music in Europe, however its prominence varies across countries. See the list of European folk music.

  6. Klezmer - Wikipedia

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    Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.

  7. English folk music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Folk music [1] is one of the major divisions of music, now often divided into traditional folk music and contemporary folk music.There are many styles of folk music, all of which can be classified into various traditions, generally based around some combination of ethnic, religious, tribal, political or geographic boundaries.

  9. Category:Folk culture of Europe - Wikipedia

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    European folk music (29 C) F. Folk festivals in Europe (7 C, 1 P) Finnish folk culture (4 C, 2 P) European folklore (26 C, 63 P) French folk culture (2 C, 1 P) G.