German folk music

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: GUEST,ingrid sinclair
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 03:20 AM

Does anyone know the correct lyrics to a children's song my father used to sing. The same verse was repeated over and over again, each time the vowel sound changed.

The lines went something like:

Mit dem Fidel Bogen und der Bass Geiger
Dann kann Mann macht Musiek an
Mit dem Fidel Bogen und der Bass Geiger
Dann kann Mann allein.


Would love to hear if anyone else knows this.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 04:34 AM

I just came across an album titled Deitsch: Live in Rudolstadt 2009. Oh, this is wonderful music! I wish Spotify had more music from them.
Their Website is http://www.deitsch.de/. they have music you can listen to on MySpace.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 09:29 AM

@ Max Johnson.....What's that-"Die Moorsoldaten" a version of "The Peat-Bog Soldiers"? It's the ORIGINAL!!!

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Reinhard
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 12:34 PM

Glad you like Deitsch, Joe, they are wonderful. I already recommended them in 2006 in the thread Der Lindenschmied.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 06:02 PM

Hi, Reinhard-

Gee, I should have listened to you back in 2006 - I just found your comment last night. Any other German singers you'd recommend?

People, please take a listen to Deitsch, even if you don't speak German. They're just delightful.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Apr 12 - 05:36 PM

Somebody asked me about "Deitsch," and I figured it would be a good excuse to refresh this thread and encourage people to take a listen to them.

MySpace music samples.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: CET
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 06:59 PM

Thanks for the link, Joe. Deitsch are great.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Apr 12 - 01:34 PM

I've tried two or three times, Joe, but nothing plays on the Deitsch pages. Maybe they're on YouTube...

If you are looking for an enjoyable group, I suggest the Swiss family, Oesch's die Dritten. Look for the Kuku Jodl.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Apr 12 - 05:24 PM

Yes, they are on YouTube. Very nice.

General info - anybody interested in German or Deutsche folkmusic should know about "the ingeb site" - a wonderful resource.

http://ingeb.org/home.html

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Apr 12 - 06:17 PM

The Deitsch site is horrible to use.

It won't let you play anything without opening a new tab or window for the MySpace player, and the new window is equally likely to play nothing or to hide another popped-up window you got when clicking because nothing happened, and you get two players doing the song at once.

I'm not fighting with something like that. Somebody let us know when they get rid of their dependence on MySpace and just have links to generic audio files?

SoundCloud is a lot less hassle for casual users.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Aug 13 - 01:40 AM

There's a great collection of German folksong lyrics at http://www.volksliederarchiv.de/.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Reinhard
Date: 06 Aug 13 - 03:34 AM

See also the Historisch-kritisches Liederlexikon by the Deutsches Volksliedarchiv.

Subject: RE: German folk music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 May 17 - 09:12 PM

I found downloadable PDF copies of the Deutscher Liederhort, volumes 1 and 3, at Google Books. Can anybody help me find the second volume?
Thanks.
-Joe-
Belay that request, mateys. I found the second volume at archive.org. Both Google Books and archive.org have shortcomings with multiple-volume publications. They each had several copies of volumes 1 and 3, so I had to open several before I finally found volume 2.

I said up above that I was looking for a downloadable copy of Der Zupfgeigenhansl. I see I have a copy on my computer, but now I don't know where I got it from - and I don't see downloadable copies on either archive.com or Google Books. Go figure.