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The article aims to study contemporary author’s songs and to reveal their connection with the regularities of folk musical language.In the modern era author’s songs on folk motives have not yet been given scientific name. It is strange that their consideration as folk examples is often acceptable to their authors. Modernized instruments created in the 20th century are also regarded as folk. In today’s Georgia most of the songs by contemporary authors referred to as ‘folk’ have little to do with traditional musical regularities the examples, disseminated as specific, established variants, are also called ’folk’.
