Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long puzzled high & lowbrows. One obvious reason: spirituals are sacred and solemn, hence naturally slower and tamer than jazz...
...years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been fairly successful, especially those, like the Russians, who have had a rich store of national folk music to draw upon...
...where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust of him in the famous Gewandhaus hall of fame in Leipzig. Even the concert-shy man-in-the-street knew and whistled melodies from Grieg...
...Most of his best compositions were light songs and piano pieces, small, lyric, orchestral posies. There was no room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his biographer blames not Grieg but the character of the national soil. Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks...
...game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet her eye. For they knew from the papers that that afternoon Mary's father had died at his home in Texas. After the show, chubby, fatherly Victor Moore, accompanied by tubby, motherly Sophie Tucker, went around to Mary's dressing room, gently broke...