folklike

Their music could be called folklike, but it's soft and pleasant, like a down pillow.

Her precise, folklike painting is the best part (Johnson).

Its theme is modal and folklike, but grows more florid every time it cycles around.

There are touches of folklike music in a piece that is deceptively straightforward, clean and, here, beautifully performed.

It was a restful, almost folklike performance.

Of the three works, the Dohnanyi made the strongest impression, with its whirling, folklike rhythmic energy.

Le roi d'Yvetot is written, in part in a simple folklike style.

"The middle section has a folklike simplicity and grace that Ives rarely allowed himself in orchestral music."

Based on his correspondence with Schulz, he favored a folklike style of Lied composition.

The players' sound is neither astringent nor folklike but rich in vibrato and warmly expressive at all times.

Now, when he plays the folklike finale of the Tchaikovsky concerto, you can hear his interest in klezmer.

The influence of her peers merely reflects the nature of that scene, which aspires to a folklike family atmosphere.

McLeese believed that the song had its roots in "the folklike purity of traditional Irish music".

The melody evokes a "folklike naivete" that "delivers both delight and emotional power".

He also worked in a highly personalized, simple, folklike idiom that ran counter to the main trends of rationalist modernism.

So, too, do the late and stilted paintings by Malevich, which are in the folklike figurative style he felt sadly forced to adopt.

Later, folklike modal melody offers broader, smoother contrasts.

The final movement exhibited a vigorous folklike character approximately in the key of G, seeming to recall Czech tradition.

It is fascinating to see how many characteristics familiar from later works, including orchestral ostinatos and folklike melodies, are already prominent here.

She can write concise folklike melodies or send words tumbling out on one note with jazzy conversational ease.

Mr. Ruckhäberle's thickly painted pictures have cartoonish, folklike qualities.

(All three of the Rasumovsky quartets quoted folk or at least folklike melodies.)

Woven through the evening are historical drawings and photographs, as well as another character, a balladeer, who presents folklike songs about the killers.

"Through the Meadows, Through the Fields" set a folklike melody over an unassuming piano line.

This is very much a chorus work, and the Kirov singers find the right blend of professional polish and folklike roughness.