Here a dance troupe from Thuringia is dancing at a festival in Brazil. "Alemanha" means Germany in Portuguese.
The first piece of music they are dancing to caught my fancy, and I decided to transcribe the sheet music. It is surprisingly hard. I can't figure out the timing. Is it 4/4. 3/4, 6/4? The accompaniment, which is a steady thudding, is no help. Maybe the guitarist doesn't know the time signature either.
I have rules for time signatures:
When the chord changes occur in erratic places, the time is wrong. When a phrase is repeated, it ought to occur in the same place in the measures. A folk piece should not bristle with dots, ties and rests. When you just can't play the thing, the time is prob. wrong.
In its quiet way, this is a unique piece of traditional music and deserves to be preserved. Any ideas?