What specific folk music does Amy Beach imitate in some sections of her Gaelic Symphony? Can you find an obvious reference to folk or popular music in the first four minutes of the first movement? Where (in time) specifically does this "folksy" music begin?
What is it about this music that sounds “ethnic" of "folksy"? Can you describe specific aspects of the rhythm, the melody or the instrumentation that create this effect?

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assuming that by westerners you mean americans. that they were mean and controlling and abusive to its peasants.

explanation:

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.