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| | What is Art Song? |
 | | Neither are folk song because they are composed with a certain degree of precision, whereas in folk song the whole point is expression, not by classically trained singers but with native, naïve enthusiasm. |
 | | True folk songs are not composed but an oral tradition : when "captured" by Cecil Sharp, Butterworth, Vaughan Williams in England; Bartok or Kodaly in Eastern Europe and others, they become formalized and frozen, when in their natural habitat they change according to region, family tradition, individual singers. |
 | | A few terms: -Song Cycle is a group of songs, usually by the same poet, that a composer conceives as being sung together. |
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