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Hungarian composer who incorporated folk melodies into art music

Indigenous Hungarians

Meters that mix two kinds of beats

Short rhythms that repeat as melody notes change

Long songs about heroes sung by a bard

Arts that served the state in the communist period

Russian musician whose ethnomusicological studies created a folk ensemble that brought back traditional styles

Gypsies

Romani bands featuring violins and cimbalom

Hammered zither

Scale of five pitches with no semitones

"Free speech rhythm"

Strict tempo

Plucked zither with frets

Vertical duct flute

Hungarian dance houses

Vocal percussion (mouth bass)

• Bulgarian composer and vocal director
• Arranged many folk songs
• Organized radio and television choirs

Upward yell at the ends of phrases

Line dances or circle dances

Rim-blown flute

Pear shaped bowed fiddle

Bagpipe with a drone and melody pipe

Long-necked fretted lute

Large cylindrical bass drum

Triangular fretted lute

Long-necked lute for strumming

Plucked zither

Button accordion

Small single-reed shepherd's pipe

Laments sung by a bride about leaving her family

Songs with short phrases repeated with different lines of lyrics

Russian composer who incorporated folk elements into art music