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.
| 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] | (({Styles))} | (({Dance))} | (({Instrumentation))} | (({Other))} |
| Estonian [19] |
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Kalevipoeg | |
| Faroese [20] |
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| Finnish [21] |
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Kalevala | ||
| Flemish [22] | ||||
| Florentine | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Formentera | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Frisian [23] | ||||
| French [24] |
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| Galician [25] |
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| Gascon | See French | – | – | – |
| Genoese | See Italian | – | – | – |
| German[26] |
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| Gheg | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Greek [27] | ||||
| Gypsy | See Romani (Gypsy) | – | – | – |
| Hungarian [28] |
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táncház | ||
| Ibiza | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Icelandic [29] |
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saga | ||
| Irish [30] |
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[31] | ||
| Istrian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Italian [32] |
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tarantolati | |
| Karelian | See Finnish | – | – | – |
| Kvarnerian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Lab | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Latvian [33] |
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| Lithuanian [33] |
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| Lombard | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Majorca | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Manx [34] |
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| Macedonian [35] |
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| Menorca | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Moldovan | See Romanian | – | – | – |
| Montenegrin [36] | Montenegrin epic poetry | gusle | ||
| Moravian | See Czech | – | – | – |
| Neapolitan | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Norwegian [37] |
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kappleikar | |
| Occitan | See French | – | – | – |
| Piedmontese | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Pityusan Islander | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Polish [38] | dozynki | |||
| Portugal [39] |
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| Provenç | See French | – | – | – |
| Puglian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Romani (Gypsy) [40] |
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| Romanian [41] | capra | |||
| Roussillon | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Russian [42] |
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| Sami [43] |
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noaite | ||
| Sardinian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Scottish [44] |
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| Serbian [45] | izvorna | |||
| Sicilian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Slavonian | See Croatian | – | – | – |
| Slovak [46] | ||||
| Slovenian [47] |
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| Spanish [48] |
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| Swedish [49] |
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| Swiss [50] | yodeling | alphorn | ||
| Tosk | See Albanian | – | – | – |
| Transylvanian | See Hungarian and Romanian | – | – | – |
| Ukrainian [51] |
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| Valencian | See Catalan | – | – | – |
| Venetian | See Italian | – | – | – |
| Vlach [36] | Pomana | |||
| Walloon [22] | fiddle | |||
| Welsh [52] |
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