Works of folk art are created and distributed by word of mouth (not written), handed down from one singer or storyteller to another, from generation to generation. This is another feature of folklore. Performer who often know the song or tune from his childhood, he feels a certain degree of co-author. According to specialists, song cannot be heard by the people twice in quite the same way. Changes to the more significant the longer the song There is, the more generations of people sing it. Folk song or tune does not live in one once and for all a fixed form, but in many variations, sometimes very similar, sometimes also quite different. This tightness is not folkloric works, it is flexible and continuous variation - an essential feature of folk art - and ensures a long life product.
To work it became truly popular, so it was made the medium in which it lives singer-songwriter, you need to make people around him, remembered the song and began singing it as your own, expressing feelings, moods, thoughts of all members of this collective and in the future, perhaps, of all people. This reflects the collective folk art, its most important property.
In folklore, there are genres that are intended also for solo performance. These are stories that tell about the legendary heroes and their exploits, are crying or wailing. Since time immemorial, the people created an epic song. Later, the historical songs and ballads.
Among the performers were outstanding solo genre masters and masters, and although their work was to attract attention only in the nineteenth century, we now know quite a few famous names. It would be wrong to think that folklore - the art of the past but only one connected with life of the village. Composed of different ages and different nations in their work repeatedly turned to folk music. In folklore, with remarkable brightness and spontaneity expressed by the character of the people, their psychology. The task of creating a national art of a country cannot be solved without the use of folklore - his subjects, those artistic images, its melodies, its rhythms (poetry or dance), and its specific manner of combinations of voices and instruments, his unique sound, voice. Use may be direct or indirect, that more often, but it always helps to enrich the musical arts, expanding its capabilities.
Folk and professional art met, interact, but at the same time profoundly different from each other. Man, educated in the traditions of one culture, it is often difficult to understand and emotionally respond to other works. So often happens in the perception of urban students of peasant folklore when he performed the peasant singers.