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Updated: June 10, 2025
A vain man might have fancied that she was singing at him, and that the by-play of her song the sudden eye-brightenings, the little twists of her mouth, the head gestures, were for his particular benefit. She was singing one of the Neapolitan folk-songs which one hears along the shores of the Mediterranean beyond Marseilles a love song. Most people know that particular love-song.
As the Emperor is a lover of the "classical" in painting and sculpture, it is not strange to find him an admirer of the classical in music and recommending it to his people as the best form of musical education. He holds that there is much in common between it and the folk-songs of Germany. At Court he revived classical dances like the minuet and the gavotte.
From morning till night there is no cessation from patriotic choruses and folk-songs. Sometimes The Sound looks like a huge drying-ground in which all these red and white sails are spread out to air. How I wish these pleasure-boats were birds! I would buy a gun and practise shooting, in the hopes of killing a few.
The whole population lined the waterside as the voyageurs struck up one of their old French folk-songs to beguile the way. The arrival at Norway House was still more imposing. The Union Jack, with the magic letters 'H. B. C. on its fly, was hoisted, to the admiration of all the whites and Indians from that most important neighbourhood.
It takes only a single frog to make the spring-time. That week the trailing fragrance of arbutus hung over wet hollows along the hills; and at night, high in the starlight, the thrilling clangour of wild geese rang out the truest sky-music of the North among all the magic folk-songs of the wild.
A question from Pryce stirred her into quoting some of the folk-songs of the Campagna, some comic, some tragic, fitting an action to them so lively and true that even those of her hearers who could not follow the dialect sat entranced. Then some one said "But they ought to be sung!"
In literature, Pushkin and Gogol were never weary of delineating their compatriots in every grade of Sclavonic society, whilst Glinka took his musical inspirations from his native folk-songs and dance-rhythms from the historic chronicles of his country or its legendary lore.
Tasso loved and suffered at Ferrara; he was avenged at Rome; his glory still lives in the folk-songs of Venice. These three elements are inseparable from his immortal memory. To represent them in music, we first called up his august spirit as he still haunts the waters of Venice.
Or is harmonization the important factor? Folk-songs are not harmonized at all, and yet certain musicians, Cecil Sharp for example, devote their lives to collecting them, while others, like Percy Grainger, base their compositions on them. On the other hand such music as Debussy's Iberia depends for its very existence on its beautiful harmonies.
The music of English-speaking people is very largely made up of these contributions from the folk-songs of dwellers in the wilder and more mountainous parts of the British Isles. One rarely goes far out of the way in attributing to this source any air that he may hear that captivates him with its seductive opulence of harmony.
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