folk-tones

Updated: May 11, 2025

It is interesting to see the exact type that each theme represents; but it is not so important as to catch the distinction, the virtue of folk-song per se and the purely natural utterance of one's own. Of course, every one writes always in his folk-tones.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies