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8 and 9) focuses on the "Anglophone Haydn," which--paradoxically--at first proved a Croatian one: William Henry Hadow's acceptance of Franjo Ksaver Kuhac's arguments about the composer's Croatian ancestry and its direct influence on the folklike features of his works seemed of great relevance for most contemporaries, whether they welcomed this train of thought or countered it in every possible way.

This vibrant symphony is full of folklike colour and glorious melodies and makes an ideal introduction to Mahler's work.

The actor in the 2007 video Home 2 by Swiss artist Olaf Breuning is daringly folklike. As a naive Westerner attending events such as ritual dances in Papua New Guinea, his credulity lands him in various absurd situations in a merciless send-up of ethnotourism.

Lucy McLauchlan, a member of Birmingham collective Beat 13, will be adorning the gallery walls with her folklike, psychedelic motifs in her signature monochrome palette.

The first is delicate and atmospheric; the second is a folklike serenade; and the third is quiet but carries interior drama in the vocal lines that illustrate speech rhythms.

"The new Berlin feels like a flesh country," says Olaf Hajek, a gay Berlin artist whose retro folklike paintings--more pretty than iconoclastic--signal the city's indifference to firm artistic boundaries.

"The Welsh are losing sight of the true meaning of gwerinol (folklike) as a style and genre with its own unique characteristics.

Beethoven's symphony employs catchy folklike melodies and a cheerful countenance to describe a bubbling brook, country dances, a thunderstorm and the like.

In the 1960s, many folk musicians began writing their own songs in a folklike idiom.

Even when MacNeil praises Saracini's folklike setting of a Virginia Andreini poem for its cultivated simplicity, its avoidance of painting either text or feeling, she weakens her own point by subsequently remarking that "many canzonettas run the risk of banality, as the musician repeats musical material over and over again." Does she need to make such an assertion?

[9] Among his contemporary "sweatshop poets," Edelstadt, Winchevsky, and Rosenfeld, Yeohash stands out as an elegant lyricist, "caught," as Irving Howe writes, "between the clashing impulses of traditional folklike song and modem idiosyncratic speech." [10] His "Woolworth Building," a fine example of the latter, recalls Hart Crane: "Evening falls/ like a deaf fly on the knot of blent/ wire and mortar and cement." [11] In "The Strongest" he writes: "I'll be the word that heals, the hand/ That unseen and still, as from above,/ Gives love." [12] Although the "unseen hand" may echo Whitman, the sentiment is closer to Longfellow: the poet as healer and comforter to his people.

But the weatherman's "El Nino" takes its name from the child born during storm-swept months two millennia ago, and Adams has drawn on a vast panorama of poetic sources to tell the story of the Nativity and its troubled consequences His texts range from the folklike symbolism of apocryphal Gospels to the anguished outcries of contemporary witnesses to tales of latter-day inquisitions and slaughters of innocent babes.