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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
Find Central European Traditions Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Central European Traditions Music on AllMusic.
Find Central European Traditions Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Central European Traditions Music on AllMusic
Sep 23, 2024 · Epic folk singing, once widespread throughout Europe and in western and southern Asia, had three main European traditions that persisted in the 20th century: Russian, Finnish, and Balkan. The Russian and Ukrainian epic traditions include ornamented singing, often improvised, in which refrains were sometimes sung polyphonically by the audience.
Nationalist composers emerged in Central Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and Britain: the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Liszt, de Falla, Wagner, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, and many others drew upon folk melodies. [citation needed]
May 18, 2022 · These are just a few of the unique European musical traditions you might not know that are already inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list. Inuit drum dancing, Greenland
The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music comprises 127 albums of music from around the world. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings published a dozen previously unreleased albums and re-released 115 albums of recordings published between 1961 and 2003 but out of print since 2005.
