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T:Faut Margit lieken efter Einar Britt
T:Margit the Bailiff's tune (?) from the playing of Einar Britt
L:1/16
M:3/4
C:Trad arr. ©2026 Ben Paley
N:This tune looks a little simple and repetitive written down. It's not complicated at all, apart
N:from being a polska, but there is so much that can be done with it. I first heard it on the
N:album by Simon Simonssons kvartett, Längs gamala stigar och färdevägar, and they turn this
N:little tune into a jewel
N:I've transcribed it in D Major just to avoid accidentals, but it doesn't seem to me to spend
N:much time actually in D.
N:The second part does a little XXY thing I really like, that always reminds me of the trilithons
N:at Stonehenge: a short phrase that's played twice like the sarsen stones, then a single short
N:phrase to cap them off, like the lintel stone.
N:Finally: it's a polska, the beats are not all the same length: please please please don't try
N:and play it without listening to Simon Simonsson's Quartet first. I've tried using triplets to
N:express the rhythm of some bars, do you think it works?
O:Älvdalen, Dalarna, Sweden
Q:1/4=110
R:Polska
D:Simon Simonssons Kvartet, "Längs Gamla Stigar och Färdeväger", 1989
D:Filip Jers Quartet, "Filip Jers Quartet Plays Swedish Folk", 2015
D:Tant Parant, "Ro och trevnad, lycklig levnad", 2024
Z:Ben Paley <ben.paley@benpaley.com>
K:D
P:A
|: (3 A4 c4 d4 e3c | (3 d4 B2 G6 B4- | -B4 f2gf e2fe | d4 B8 :|
P:B
|: B4 G2FG A3F | (3 F4 E4 G4 B4- | -B4 G2FG A3F |
(3 F4 E4 G4 B4- | -B4 G2FG A3F | FE3 E8 :|