Crossword-Solution: FOLKSONGS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

But the maker of folksongs for our newborn nation requires a somewhat rare combination of gifts and experiences.

Eric took the violin from the Frenchmen, and Minna Oleson sat at the organ, and the music grew more and more characteristic--rude, half mournful music, made up of the folksongs of the North, that the villagers sing through the long night in hamlets by the sea, when they are thinking of the sun, and the spring, and the fishermen so long away.

These holiday garments served him in all seasons; and when you saw him dressed in them, and seated in a car bound for Park Square, you knew he was going into Boston, where he would read manuscript essays on Botticelli or Pico della Mirandola, or manuscript translations of Armenian folksongs; read these to ecstatic, dim-eyed ladies in Newbury Street, who would pour him cups of tea when it was over, and speak of his earnestness after he was gone.

Inglethorp’s cheque, and regretting they had been unable to trace a certain series of Russian folksongs.

And noting that Chopin founded whole paragraphs "either on a single phrase repeated in similar shapes or on two phrases in alternation"--a primitive practice in Polish folksongs--he asserts that "Beethoven does not attain the lucidity of his style by such parallelism of phraseology," but admits that Chopin's methods made for "clearness and precision...may be regarded as characteristic of the national manner." A thoroughly personal characteristic too.