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Folk Songs (Berio)

Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming "a tribute to the extraordinary artistry" of the American singer Cathy Berberian, a specialist in Berio's music. It is scored for voice, flute (doubling on piccolo), clarinet, harp, viola, cello, and percussion (two players). The composer arranged it for a large orchestra in 1973.

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Folk Songs (Charlie Haden album)

Folk Songs is an album by bassist Charlie Haden, saxophonist Jan Garbarek and guitarist Egberto Gismonti recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label. The album follows the trio's first recording Magico (1979).

Usage examples of "folk songs".

I'd hoped that wife of yours had dug something up in her folk songs, or you had, in talking to these people.

Scottish Vernacular: Learned from Bawdy Verse and Folk Songs Written & Collected by Robert Burns, Macmillan, London, 1982.

The boys knew modern acid, Lou-Mae knew black spirituals, and Orb knew Old World folk songs.

The incomprehensible refrains of Forest Folk songs worked their long-forgotten Artifice.

He had been forced to disband his group in '38 -- his boys had been put into brown shirts or dashing black winter uniforms -- but the former scouts, in civilian clothes or in their new uniforms, came regularly to see their former scout leader, to sing morning songs, evening songs, hiking songs, soldier's songs, harvest songs, hymns to the Virgin, and folk songs native and foreign.

And, though I have never been deeply initiated into science, I simply cannot conceive how the learned can bear to let our people, unruly and passionate as they are, chant their incantations with their faces turned upwards, wail our ancient folk songs into the air, and spring high in their dances as though, forgetting the ground, they wished to take flight from it forever.

Rhombur began to sing folk songs, rhymes he'd picked up from locals.

The path between the two was narrow and treacherous, like the winding track that old folk songs claimed led one into Faerie.

Over the years Maddyn had elaborated the simple folk songs about Diily Blind and the Wildfolk into something of an epic, adding verse after verse and clarifying the various stories.

It has helped to broaden my horizons, because though I have always liked folk songs, my knowledge of the blues is close to nothing.