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FOLKLORE

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TYPES AND GENRES OF FOLKLORE

MUSICAL FOLKLORE		VERBAL FOLKLORE
FOLK SONGS		FOLK NARRATIVES
Songs:		Tales:
♪ calendar songs		animal tales ♪
♪ work songs		tales of magic ♪
♪ wedding songs		religious tales
♪ christening songs		parables
♪ drinking songs		novellas
♪ children’s songs		tales of the stupid ogre
mythological songs		joke tales
♪ military-historical songs		tales of lying
emigrant songs		formula tales
♪ family songs		catch tales
♪ youth songs		Fables
♪ love songs		Legends:
♪ romances		origin legends
♪ ballads		belief legends ♪
♪ dance, round-dance, game songs		historical/local legends ♪
♪ folk couplets		Folk stories ♪
♪ songs about nature		Anecdotes ♪
♪ literary songs		Orations ♪
♪ humorous songs
♪ didactic songs		SHORT FORMS
		Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases
♪ Sutartinės (Polyphonic songs)		Riddles ♪
♪ Laments:		Incantations (Charms) ♪
funeral laments		Prayers ♪
wedding laments		Fortune-Telling
war/recruit laments		Curses
occasional laments		Onomatopoeia
♪ Folk style psalms		Beliefs / Superstitions
Folk song parodies		Tongue-Twisters
		Counting-Out Rhymes
♪ INSTRUMENTAL FOLKLORE		Inverted Speech
		Exclamations
CHOREOGRAPHIC FOLKLORE		Situational Phrases
		Teasing Rhymes
		Parodies