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I would very much suggest resubmitting here though with a more specific framing - "What was folk music like in early modern Europe" or something like that.

I think by the mid 1800s subscription symphonies were accessible to, let's call them, the "middling sort". Also I think there was a higher percentage in the general population of people who could and did make their own music. By the late 1800s more scholarly musicians were going around and working to document the folk music of various ethnicities. The Little House on the Prairie books, which are semi-autobiographical, are a good example of the accessibility of homemade music to people in marginal socioeconomic circumstances.