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nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.
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That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.
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In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.
The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.
Rabbits, too, if you care for them, which most of the folk around here haven't the sense to appreciate.
Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.
According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".
His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: " We have this need for some larger-than-life creature.
Historically most of the music published in Esperanto has been in various folk traditions ; in recent decades more rock and other modern genres has appeared.
Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music
As such, most traditional folk music has meaningful lyrics.
Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.
But the emergence of the term " folk " coincided with an " outburst of national feeling all over Europe " that was particularly strong at the edges of Europe, where national identity was most asserted.
While even many tribal cultures are losing traditional folk music and folk cultures, the process is most advanced " where industrialization and commercialisation of culture are most advanced ".
One of the most extensive was perhaps the work done in Riga by Krisjanis Barons who between the years between 1894 and 1915 published six volumes including the texts of 217 996 Latvian folk songs ; the Latvju dainas.
and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.
The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission.
The use of a jacket is compulsory in judo competition, sambo competition, and most Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition, as well as a variety of folk wrestling styles around the world.
The most common size has 34 strings: Two octaves below middle C and two and a half above ( ending on A ), although folk or lever harps can usually be found with anywhere from 19 to 40 strings.
By the Tudor period, the Irish culture and language had regained most of the territory initially lost to the colonists: even in the Pale, ‘ all the common folk … for the most part are of Irish birth, Irish habit and of Irish language ’.

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