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Margit the Bailiff's tune (?) from the playing of Einar Britt
This tune looks a little simple and repetitive written down. It's not complicated at all, apart from being a polska, but there is so much that can be done with it. I first heard it on the 1989 album by Simon Simonssons kvartett, Längs gamala stigar och färdevägar, and they turn this little tune into a jewel.
I've transcribed it in D Major just to avoid accidentals, but it doesn't seem to me to spend much time actually in D.
The second part does a little XXY thing I really like, that always reminds me of the trilithons at Stonehenge: a short phrase that's played twice like the sarsen stones, then a single short phrase to cap them off, like the lintel stone.
Finally: it's a polska, the beats are not all the same length: please please please don't try and play it without listening to Simon Simonsson's Quartet first. I've tried using triplets to express the rhythm of some bars, do you think it works?
