Origins of pieces: folk dances (Hungarian, Polish , Russian, etc?)

[proklover]

Many composers have turned to their ethnic origin and folk music for inspiration..I mean I get all the baroque styles, (waltz, minuet, sarabande, gavotte. Etc) but can someone summarize for me the different types of folk dances and their special characteristics? For example, I know that Hungarian dances often stress the first beat。

[49410enrique]

your question, althought a good one is too broad, to i think be answered easily here. still want to try to help and point you in the rigth direction, do a google for 'ethnomusicology' and then the type of music you want, also check scribd.com with similar searches. there are lots of full text books, academic journals, entire university departments, other publications, etc all dedicated to the field, if anything the difficulty with your question is not a 'lack of information' but rather there is so much so the more specific you are in your search i think the easier it will be.

you might contact these people and ask for help with how you might go about researching this

https://www.ethnomusicology.org/

good luck, i think you'll get the most in depth understanding going this route vs a superficial and incomplete summary

[proklover]

Thank you!!!