Sentence examples for folk material from inspiring English sources

(Desyatnikov invokes not just folk material but also jazz and Steve Reich — and Stravinsky).

Like the score, the choreography takes folk material and transmutes it into something surprisingly new.

The Scottish poet Robert Burns reworked folk material for his poem "John Barleycorn" (1787).

The rabbis realized the great danger involved in this situation and developed their own folk material.

Bartok and Kodaly go out on the road, transcribing folk material.

Curiously the sound is only intermittently African; the melodic lines and pizzicato meters often suggest European folk material.

While incorporating an American melodic flavor, he did not often use popular or folk materials the way Copland did.

Mr. Wilson blends an un-self-conscious postmodernist cool with a lovingly perceptive appropriation of folk materials.

"It caused me to look at some of our native American folk materials and the popular sources of our culture in different ways".

Like the suite, it is etched in insistent, driven rhythms and brash harmonies, and like "Hispania," it makes veiled allusions to folk materials (Romanian, in Radulescu's case).

Of course, Bartok also used folk materials, but he mostly avoided mimicry and instead integrated them into his sophisticated modernist idiom.