Note 353 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY

Of course, one community may still sing, while another has forgotten. Beaurepaire, Étude sur la Poésie Populaire en Normandie, 1856, pp. 24 f., notes this, as well as the fact that some kinds of songs linger while others die. He found no vocero left in Normandy, but old choral wedding songs still were heard. The dance is going—the old village dance, the ronde: pp. 30 f.