Usage of "traditional song"

Russian

традиционная народная песня

Spanish

canciön folklórico

Catalan

cançó popular

Song with anonymous or unknown writer without authorized original version; song that is part of the oral tradition.

Related terms

music genre

традиционная народная песня

Usage of traditional song in English

And Olivia Chaney has impressed with her take on English traditional song. 
 The Irish Times 

Mom brought in the birthday cake, and everyone sang the traditional song. 
 Revival 

Children gather in the sun to practice traditional song and dance. 
 BBC 

It was a time of innovation in traditional song accompaniment. 
 The Guardian 

It's a traditional song, but sung anew by a family. 
 The Guardian 

The Faloorie Man is a character in a traditional song. 
 The Irish Times 

The journalist wished Mrs Merkel a happy birthday, before serenading her with the traditional song. 
 BBC 

Someone began a traditional song, and more flutes were brought forth to accompany the singers. 
 The Valley of Horses 

Songs have passports all of their own, and our traditional song store has travelled widely. 
 The Irish Times 

The chorus part is built on echoed phrases of the traditional song, creating a wash of sound. 
 Radio NZ 

They were there as one half-hearted attempt at the traditional song about being proud to be Brazilian made clear. 
 The Irish Times 

She goes on: People don't think a traditional song is as technical as a classical song, and that's not true. 
 The Irish Times 

Even if it can't, there's always a traditional song we sing as the new couple crosses the threshold of their home. 
 Catching Fire 

I had forgotten that, at 10 am each day, a group of villagers performed traditional song and dance in Pingzhai's square. 
 BBC 

Of the first importance in this anthology of traditional song are the "Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge" and "A Dree Neet." 
 Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems 

But the great legend of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fascinating and immortal, in our minds. 
 The Mirror of the Sea 