We present a hypothesis-driven study on the variation of melody phrases in a collection of Dutch folk songs. We investigate the variation of phrases within the folk songs through a pattern matching method which detects occurrences of these phrases within folk song variants. and ask the question: do the phrases which show less variation have different properties than those which do. We... https://www.roneverhart.com/Phi-Mu-Mom-Dad-Embroidered-Button/