Thus, analysis of the style and recognition of its folk origin is dependent upon knowledge of the "high art" with which it interacts, as well as of the folk situation that sets it apart.
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.
Typical music for dancing includes polkas, courtship dances of Bohemian folk origin, and the galopa, a variant of which is the bottle dance, so called because the dancers balance bottles on their heads.
Polka, lively courtship dance of Bohemian folk origin.
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.
Since Classical times composers of written literature have borrowed tales and motifs from oral narratives, and their folk origin has been forgotten.
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".
