abcusers-digest wrote: > > abcusers-digest Tuesday, April 9 2002 Volume 01 : Number 666 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:28:44 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [abcusers] Re: What tune is this? > > Ulf writes: > > >...There must be someone who knows it. What is the name of it? > >What does the rest of it go like? > > > X:1 > T:Unknown Begin Of Danish Folk Tune > K:G maj > M:4/4 > L:1/8 > B2c2 ||: "G" d^cde "D7" cBcd | "G" B2b2 b2Bd | "D7" c2 a2 a2 Ac | > "G" B2 g2 g2 Bc | d^cde "D7" cBcd | "G" B2b2 b2Bd | "D7" c2 a2 a^gab | > "G" g2 g2 g2 z2 || > "A7" a^gab a=gfe | "D" d^cdf edcB | "A7" AB^cd efge | "D" d^cde f2 z2 | > "A7" a^gab a=gfe | "D" d^cdf edcB | "A7" AB^cd efge | "D" d2 d2 dc Bc :|] > > > > Sounds suspiciously like what we in the US would call the "Heel > and Toe Polka." > > X:2 > T:Heel and Toe Polka > M:C| > L:1/4 > K:G > d/c/|:Bdce|dbb/^a/b|caa/^g/a|Bgg/f/g| > Bdce|dbb/^a/b|c'aa/c'/b/a/|ggg[1d/c/:|2z|| > gee/g/f/e/|dBB/^A/B|cAA/^G/A|edde/f/| > gee/g/f/e/|dBB/^A/B|cAA/c/B/A/|GGG[1e/f/:|2d/c/|] > > ______ /\/\/\/\ > <______> | | | | | David Barnert > <______> | | | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <______> | | | | | Albany, N.Y. > <______> \/\/\/\/ > > Ventilator Concertina > Bellows Bellows > (Vocation) (Avocation) Someone else voiced the opinion: > > That's actually more properly known as the Jenny Lind polka. "Heel > and Toe Polka" is that name of a dance that just wants a simple, > regular polka like this, and it's done to any number of other common > polka tunes. > > I've heard both of these tunes, and while they're similar, I don't > think I'd consider them the same tune. I don't know the name of Ulf's > tune, though. Maybe I'll ask on the scand list. > Imo the Danish tune does not begin to be Jenny Lind (except under that convention that any two tunes in the same key(s) with roughly the same phrasing and 1-2 similar runs are the same tune.)
It does not resemble (at least the English version of) a tune called "Heel and Toe" that I know of (presumably for the dance of the same name). Whether it's a Danish Tune for the Heel and Toe Polka _dance_ I couldnt guess -- Phil Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
