Bartok and Kodaly had begun notating Hungarian peasant songs.
But it had nothing to do with genuine Roma music or Hungarian peasant songs.
They also tried to reproduce the long-drawn, lyrical and melismatic peasant song, what Glinka had once called "the soul of Russian music."
After a performance, Bagatelle is rehearsing a peasant song when an 18 year-old young admirer enters through the window.
The villanelle originated as a simple ballad-like song-in imitation of peasant songs of an oral tradition-with no fixed poetic form.
A peasant song from the 1920s celebrates his deeds:
He uncovered an entire world of unknown peasant songs and dances, far more harsh than the stylized gypsy airs formerly associated with the region.
But in its peasant songs, tied to fertility rituals, Miss Jamison has heard a universal resonance.
The score included a drinking song, a lullaby, a peasant song, and a waltz.
On the one hand, peasant songs mentioned noble laziness and shoddy workmanship.
