Kabuki is a Japanese mask; often, one may see a "kabuki mask" as a tatto style, but it was originally a dance! <span />
The various melodies heard in Antonin Dvořák's "String Quartet in F Major" have a folk-like quality.
There are some instances in this string quartet which are reminiscent of American, Slavonic, and other culture's folk music, meaning music sang and played within the groups of 'ordinary people.' It was written in the pentatonic scale which is common with folk music.
