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Folk music:
This music is not based on chord progressions and such type of accompaniment was introduced like last century in arrangements. If anything, they used drones for tonic and dominant pitches and that's it.
Get a book with folklore songs and learn some music.
(Stravinsky used such anthology sourcing the melodies in some of his works, despite denying this, but musicologists later found all of his sources, wow.)
After you learn enough songs, you will start spotting common melodic motives and motions.
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Art music: anything goes, copy the style of some Russian composer you like...