List of European folk music traditions
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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work. Similarly, the term traditions in this context does not connote any strictly defined criteria. Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in varying degrees with each other. Sometimes, folk songs will often be passed down.
Europe
| Country | Elements | Dance | Instrumentation | Other topics |
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| Albanian [1] |
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| Andalusian | See Spanish | – | – | – |
| Andorran | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Arbereshi | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Austrian [2] |
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| Auvergnat | See French | – | – | – |
| Balearic Islander | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Basque [4] |
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| Bavarian | See German | – | – | – |
| Belarusian | ||||
| Bohemian | See Czech | – | – | – |
| Bosnian [5][6][7] |
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| Breton [9] |
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| Bulgarian [10] |
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Koprivshtitsa | |
| Burgenland Croat | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Calabrian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Cantabrian |
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[jisquíu]] o ijujú |
| Castilian | See Spanish | – | – | – |
| Catalan [11] |
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cantada |
| Cham | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Channel Islands[12] | bachîn ringing |
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| Cornish [13] | Cornish carol | gorsedd | ||
| Corsican | See French | – | – | – |
| Croatian [14] | tamburitza | |||
| Cypriot | See Greek or Turkish | – | – | – |
| Czech [15] |
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| Dalmatian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Danish [16] | fanik | accordion | ||
| Dutch [17] | ||||
| Emilian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| English [18] | [19] | |||
| Estonian [20] |
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Kalevipoeg | |
| Faroese [21] |
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| Finnish [22] |
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Kalevala | ||
| Flemish [23] | ||||
| Florentine | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Formentera | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Frisian [24] | ||||
| French [25] |
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| Galician [26] |
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| Gascon | See French | – | – | – |
| Genoese | See Italian | – | – | – |
| German[27] |
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| Gheg | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Greek [28] | ||||
| Gypsy | See Romani (Gypsy) | – | – | – |
| Hungarian [29] |
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táncház | ||
| Ibiza | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Icelandic [30] |
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saga | ||
| Irish [31] |
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| Istrian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Italian [33] |
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tarantolati | |
| Karelian | See Finnish | – | – | – |
| Kvarnerian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Lab | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Latvian [34] |
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| Lithuanian [34] |
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| Lombard | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Majorca | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Manx [35] |
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| Macedonian [36] |
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| Maltese [37] | għana | |||
| Menorca | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Moldovan | See Romanian | – | – | – |
| Montenegrin [38] | Montenegrin epic poetry | gusle | ||
| Moravian | See Czech | – | – | – |
| Neapolitan | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Norwegian [39] |
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kappleikar | |
| Occitan | See French | – | – | – |
| Piedmontese | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Pityusan Islander | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Polish [40] | dozynki | |||
| Pontic Greek[41][42] |
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{{{Other}}} | ||
| Portugal [43] |
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| Provenç | See French | – | – | – |
| Puglian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Romani (Gypsy) [44] |
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| Romanian [45] | capra | |||
| Roussillon | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Russian [46] |
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| Sami [47] |
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noaite | ||
| Sardinian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Scottish [48] |
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| Serbian [49] | izvorna | |||
| Sicilian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Slavonian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Slovak [50] | ||||
| Slovenian [51] |
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| Spanish [52] |
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| Swedish [53] |
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| Swiss [54] | yodeling | alphorn | ||
| Tosk | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Transylvanian | See Hungarian and Romanian | – | – | – |
| Ukrainian [55] |
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| Valencian | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Venetian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Vlach [38] | Pomana | |||
| Walloon [23] | fiddle | |||
| Welsh [56] |
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