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Folger, Henry Clay 1857-1930 , folk / fōk/ (also folks) • pl. n. 1. inf. people in general: some folk will do anything for money an old folks' home. ∎ a specified group of people:… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… Cecil James Sharp , Sharp, Cecil
Cecil Sharp
British musicologist Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) made an invaluable contribution to the history of folk music in his travels thr… Folk Music , Before the twentieth century, a dichotomy prevailed between cultivated music, by educated, formally trained musicians and composers, and folk music,… Zoltan Kodaly , Kodály, Zoltán
Kodály, Zoltán, renowned Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator; b. Kecskemet, Dec. 16, 1882; d. Budapest, March 6,… Lomax, Alan , Alan Lomax
No individual has done as much to catalog and preserve traditional American music as American folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002). A folklor…
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