Folk music
(foke MYOO-zik)

A term used to describe music of the common people that has been passed on by memorization or repetition rather than by writing, and has deep roots in its own culture. Folk music has an ever-changing and varying nature, and is deeply significant to the members of the culture to which it belongs.

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Folk music, influences of, Romantic:
Smetana: The Moldau (ending)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 43
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World), II
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 35
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2 (ending)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 42
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major, III
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 28
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34, "Fandango asturiano" (middle section)
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 2, Track 23
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Dances: "Furiant"
W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank -- Disc 1, Track 39
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