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Folklore is the only recognised field of musical creativity on a mass scale. Here, ‘every new variant is an archetype, for there is no authoritative original’, even the same folk musician will not repeat the same melodic line unchanged; what folk singers ‘carried in their memories was not a fixed, m...

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Published in:Popular music 1981-01, Vol.1, p.15-25
Main Author: Maróthy, János
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art songs
Ethnomusicology
Folk culture
Folk music
Folklore
Folksongs
Humans
Musical performance
Musical rhythm
Opera
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Summary:Folklore is the only recognised field of musical creativity on a mass scale. Here, ‘every new variant is an archetype, for there is no authoritative original’, even the same folk musician will not repeat the same melodic line unchanged; what folk singers ‘carried in their memories was not a fixed, memorised series of words and notes, but the fluid idea of a song which so far as they were concerned had never had any other existence than in the fresh evocations it received from singers like themselves’ (Bronson 1969, pp. 102–6).
ISSN:0261-1430
1474-0095
DOI:10.1017/S0261143000000891