Below you will find example sentences with "folk song". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Folk Song in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: folk
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "folk song" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 20th century folk song salty dog, a scottish folk song a wee, music, traditional and irish stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with folk music, folk festival, theme song, folk festival, traditional folk and folk dance, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with folk song
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Before Tsai took the stage, an emcee led the crowd in a Taiwanese folk song. (15 words)
It is a very old traditional folk song which has been recreated in a modern way. (16 words)
The lyrics echo the early 20th-century folk song “Salty Dog Blues,” which Mississippi John Hurt and Lead Belly famously recorded. (21 words)
Two collaborations with electronic duo – including a take on 14th-century Irish folk song Eileen Aroon – are perhaps too gentle, but McVittie’s collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter on The Lark in the Clear Air, another Irish folk song, is a revelation. (41 words)
Doyle said the success of Cymru reaching the football World Cup, when some players gave interviews in Welsh and the defiant Welsh-language folk song (Still Here) became one of the sounds of the tournament, had helped promote Cymraeg. (39 words)
In a Thanksgiving concert that combined upbeat pop hits, holiday classics, original spoken word pieces and a traditional Yiddish folk song, the Pierce College choir worked to spread gratitude on Saturday, Nov. 23, using the universal language of music. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Two collaborations with electronic duo – including a take on 14th-century Irish folk song Eileen Aroon – are perhaps too gentle, but McVittie’s collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter on The Lark in the Clear Air, another Irish folk song, is a revelation.
A series entitled Ireland’s Favourite Folk Song series was presented by folk legend Mary Black, who spoke about how pleased she was with the decision.
A.L.Lloyd, Folk Song in England, Panther Arts, 1969 The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term can also apply to music that, ".
Folk songs are more-or-less in the public domain by definition, though there are many folk song entertainers who publish and record copyrighted original material.
He took his stage name Stan Kelly (he was not known as Stan Kelly-Bootle in folk music circles) from the Irish folk song "Kelly, the boy from Killane".
Parry considered that by recovering English folk song, English composers would find an authentic national voice; he commented, "in true folk-songs there is no sham, no got-up glitter, and no vulgarity".
Sometimes he used Western-style melodies, sometimes original melodies written in the style of Russian folk song; sometimes he used actual folk songs.
His song " Massachusetts " was named the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of his adult life.
It is sung to the tune of a Scottish folk song "A Wee Deoch an Doris", from around 1911. citation The famed song is generally sung, in accordance to common football tradition, after a victory.
When the composer of a song or piece is no longer known, this music is often classified as "traditional" or as a "folk song".
But it carried a double meaning: the outspoken Casals adapted the folk song for cello as a plea for his native Catalonia, after civil war engulfed Spain.
Doyle said the success of Cymru reaching the football World Cup, when some players gave interviews in Welsh and the defiant Welsh-language folk song (Still Here) became one of the sounds of the tournament, had helped promote Cymraeg.
It is a very old traditional folk song which has been recreated in a modern way.
The wending and winding folk song features the story of an animal courtship and wedding party that, when snug with Dylan’s signature vocal rasp, is just sublime.
Composed by GV Prakash Kumar, the celebratory folk song has Sinduri playfully crooning, her voice infusing energy into the lyrics by Uma Devi.
In a Thanksgiving concert that combined upbeat pop hits, holiday classics, original spoken word pieces and a traditional Yiddish folk song, the Pierce College choir worked to spread gratitude on Saturday, Nov. 23, using the universal language of music.
Ms. Hogrogian won her first Caldecott Medal in 1966 for illustrating “Always Room for One More,” a story based on a Scottish folk song about a poor man who keeps welcoming guests into his home.
Outside the building, the traditional folk song could be heard as hundreds more Edmontonians stood in the teeth-chattering cold to look up at the city’s cenotaph, guarded by four armed soldiers.
The lyrics echo the early 20th-century folk song “Salty Dog Blues,” which Mississippi John Hurt and Lead Belly famously recorded.
Before Tsai took the stage, an emcee led the crowd in a Taiwanese folk song.