volkslied
noun
a folk song.
volkslied
American
[fawlks-leet]
/ ˈfɔlksˌlit /
noun
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volkslieder
plural
Volkslied
British
/ ˈfɔlksliːt /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of volkslied
From German
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The schoolmaster and young Deyke had hastened out again, and soon the simple but beautiful volkslied of the country commenced.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
Some one was striking the preliminary chords of a volkslied on his favorite instrument, a Rhaetian variation of the zither.
From The Princess Virginia by Leon Guipon
Even the human inhabitants do not sing here, and on these melancholy coasts the strain of a volkslied is never heard.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
Probably, however, he means the communal lyric in survival, not the ballad, not what Germans would include under volkslied and Frenchmen under chanson populaire.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Mr Andrew Lang decides that it is a volkslied, to which, for the version of it illustrated by Cruikshank, Thackeray contributed the notes considered by some to be by Dickens.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
A Volkslied came to her mind, one she had heard as a child and been rocked to, a peasant song, simple and touching.
From The Black Cross by Olive M. Briggs
They are the very embodiment of vigorous, soul-stirring harmony, the basis of sacred, as the Volkslied is of secular, music.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
Humperdinck's melody is founded upon the Volkslied, and he uses at least one nursery tune with charming effect.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
The Volkslied exhales the very perfume of nature.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
"On the Wings of the Wind"; "The Volkslied"; "The Venetian Gondolier," and others, are distinctly bright and sunny, fresh and graceful.
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