It is music for everyone, everything and every occasion! General participation is encouraged to such an extent in the process of making music that there is a near absence of audience as a separate entity. Folk music responds to three cycles in nature - cycle of life and death, cycle of day and night, cycle of seasons. It involved combination of singing, dancing and playing instruments. 
Kehrawa (4 beats), Dadra (6 beats), Jalad Deepchandi/ Chachar (7 beats), etc. Rhythms add the liveliness in songs and also encourage one to repeat or hum it for long time. Most of the primitive songs use three-four notes of female and male voice which are, in a way, consonances in first-forth or first-fifth note (Shadja-Madhyam or Shadja-Pancham Samwaad, together forming an octave later in folk music.
In the primary phase, music was essentially diatonic or triton. Ranade in his book on ethnomusicology describes the features of primitive and folk music as following. Ravindranath Tagore - The music created by masses in excitable way shaping the melodies in expressive language.ĭr Ashok D. Kunjbihari Das - Folk music is the music away from the classes and elite etiquettes, the songs depicting the luster of rustic beauty. Satyendra - The songs expressing the mindscape of masses are folk music. Sarojini Babar - The music of common people, peasants, farmers, village occupational, folks, masses adorned with beautifully simple melodies and rhythms, interesting poetry depicting the nature and human mind. Ranade - The music of people, by people and for people is folk music. Many musicologists and thinkers have defined folk music in various ways, such as.
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