Sentence examples for folk origin from inspiring English sources

Polka, lively courtship dance of Bohemian folk origin.

Particularly frequent in all literature are proverbs, many of them certainly of folk origin.

Of folk origin, the pyŏlgok was sung chiefly by women performers (kisaeng) and was intended for performance on festive occasions.

Since Classical times composers of written literature have borrowed tales and motifs from oral narratives, and their folk origin has been forgotten.

When the tune returns in the singing scene, Westlake adds a penny whistle and a frame drum—"preferably of Celtic folk origin," the score notes for a flavor of Riverdance.

The Bottle Imp, for example, the outline of which Stevenson knew as an early 19th-century melodrama, though it was a tale of Germanic folk origin, was translated into Samoan and published in a local missionary magazine.

Then, after a while, the poets revolt and, usually turning to folk origins, restore to lyric poetry at least the appearance of naturalness and spontaneity.

These works, of only intermittent literary interest, devote considerable attention to the folk origins of different place-names, as well as to other local legends.

"Although Hindu scales, melodies and harmonies are different, we understood each other … The folk origins of music aren't far apart anywhere in the world".

We did agree to admit one traditional lullaby (Carl Bernstein's choice, All the Pretty Horses), as its folk origins are unclear, and it may well have begun life as verse.

Traditional Barbadian wind instruments are largely metal, but in their folk origins, were made out of locally found materials.