Martin Jonas
Jan-19-2015, 7:48pm
We don't talk a lot about Austrian or German dance music here, so this is slightly off-beat.
This is a traditional polka from the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, and well-known in its vocal form throughout Austria and Germany. It's normally played on accordion, but I think it translates quite nicely to mandolins and is fun to play!
I'm playing it on two mandolins with tenor guitar backing in an arrangement by Michel Van Der Meiren:
http://www.tangosite.com/concertina/post/609/schoen-marie
An alternative transcription, with words and a video of the dance, is at:
http://www.volksmusik.cc/volkstanz/schoenmarie.htm
Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
QIH60KcdP2A
Martin
This is a traditional polka from the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, and well-known in its vocal form throughout Austria and Germany. It's normally played on accordion, but I think it translates quite nicely to mandolins and is fun to play!
I'm playing it on two mandolins with tenor guitar backing in an arrangement by Michel Van Der Meiren:
http://www.tangosite.com/concertina/post/609/schoen-marie
An alternative transcription, with words and a video of the dance, is at:
http://www.volksmusik.cc/volkstanz/schoenmarie.htm
Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
QIH60KcdP2A
Martin