Folk songs have been recorded since ancient times in China. The term Yuefu was used for a broad range of songs such as ballads, laments, folk songs,...

vernacular music, or roots music. Many traditional songs have been sung within the same family or folk group for generations, and sometimes trace back to...

Folk songs include ballads, lullabies, love songs, mourning songs, dance songs, work songs, ritual songs and many more. A sporting song is a folk song...

contemporary folk music genre. Folk Songs may also refer to: Folk Songs (Berio), a 1964 song cycle by Luciano Berio Folk Songs, a composition by Eric Mandat...

include industrial work songs. Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and...

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from...

the final movement is based on four "Folk Songs from Somerset". It originally had a fourth movement, "Sea Songs", which was played second, but the composer...

Folk-pop is a broad musical style that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements...

of folk dances, people watching the dance sing the songs in the same way that cheerers chant in a game. This is very evident especially in songs where...

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...