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14 Jan 04 - 08:15 AM (#1092602) Subject: polka trio From: stevethesqueeze does anyone know why some polka tunes have an aditional third part, the "trio" attached to them? stevethesqueeze |
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14 Jan 04 - 09:43 AM (#1092647) Subject: RE: polka trio From: Sorcha Becasuse (i'll get me coat now) |
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15 Jan 04 - 03:47 AM (#1093136) Subject: RE: polka trio From: stevethesqueeze Thats what I mean. I cant see what the "because" would be. Most dance tunes follow the 8 bars and two parts thing, but how and why did the idea of the third part come into it? After all a polka dance doesnt follow a set procedure like a country dance. Perhaps no one now knows why it is. stevethesqueeze |
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15 Jan 04 - 04:09 AM (#1093145) Subject: RE: polka trio From: GUEST,davetnova Twosteps often have trios attached to them too, maybe its just to add variety to a longish dance. |
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15 Jan 04 - 10:06 AM (#1093323) Subject: RE: polka trio From: greg stephens Same reason as most marches have a trio, generally involving a slow moving tune in the sub-dominant key (compared to the key of the first strain): because it sounds nice. (But that's just a guess. It might be because it says so in the Book of Lweviticus). |
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15 Jan 04 - 10:09 AM (#1093324) Subject: RE: polka trio From: GUEST,Pete Peterson Don't know but speculation: classical ragtime as exemplified by Scott Joplin, James Scott, Kerry Mills ETC. often featured two parts and a "trio" which was a third part, usually in the key with one less sharp (a fourth higher). And now that I think of it, the Sousa marches that I played in HS band a long time ago would do the same thing. So. . . "composers" of polkas followed an established pattern. (Next question-- why that pattern? dunno) |