FOLK MUSIC

FOLK MUSIC from the period after the Kalevala rune melodies (see RUNE MELODIES) often shows influences from other countries, but includes traits that are definitely Finnish. One trait continued from the time of the rune melodies is the lengthened and repeated final note of each phrase. The newer songs, however, are strophic and rhyming, have a much wider range, often an octave to a tenth, and are rhythmically quite varied. They can be in duple or triple meter, or a combination of the two…