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- adjective music Resembling the style of
folk music
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Examples
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The Dvorak "New World Symphony" is, of course, one of the great crowd-pleasers in the canon, delivering the highest technical and artistic achievements in a folklike voice that is accessible to any sentient listener.
Music review: Adams's 'Doctor Atomic' by BSO at Strathmore Post 2010
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His "Adagio," plaintive and folklike, shows off individual instruments.
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The slower second movement offered a passionate folklike melody.
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Together they took risks with eloquently elastic phrasing, pared dynamics down to a whisper in the Canzonetta slow movement and relished the folklike liberties of the finale, virtually stopping the music in its tracks at one point.
Evening Standard - Home Barry Millington 2011
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★ Promised Land Saturday This collective trio - with Myra Melford on piano, Brandon Ross on acoustic guitar and Stomu Takeishi on acoustic bass guitar - draws on a shared commitment to folklike sparseness and cosmopolitan sophistication, improvising a kind of on-the-spot chamber music.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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The slower second movement offered a passionate folklike melody.
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"Hazelnut Eyes," his high mark so far, with its beguiling chorus that helps seven and a half minutes fly by; the folklike "Flower"; and the short, free-rhythm "Will You Let It?"
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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Gentle folklike sections alternated with stormy passionate ones with striking technical displays ....
GotPoetry.com News 2010
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Gentle folklike sections alternated with stormy passionate ones with striking technical displays ....
GotPoetry.com News 2010
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"In Line," a more animated piece, gradually displaces a repeating Oriental pattern with swirls of folklike chords.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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