As a result, melancholy folk melody took on a tone that was very nearly Shakespearean.
He probably began preparing his first series of Moravian folk melodies in 1900.
Instead, his music takes as its inspiration Danish cultural ideas and folk melodies.
The use of folk melodies is especially encouraged in ballet and opera.
And the last movement contains also two folk melodies played by peasant violin players.
The man continued to ignore him, and began humming a mournful folk melody.
Handy himself described his job as being "to dream and build upon our folk melodies."
Between the years 1850-62, he published several collections of Norwegian folk melodies.
The dance makes common use of ethnic Ukrainian folk melodies.
It is a four movement fantasy on Scottish folk melodies.