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Typical instruments for Austrian folk dance are the Styrian harmonica (a type of accordion), the fiddle, the clarinet, the harp, the flute and brass bands. Dances are often accompanied by the contrabass or the guitar. Unlike modern Austrian folk-pop music, drums are not used.
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Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 2 4 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia , now part of the Czech Republic . Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture , polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
Pages in category "Austrian musical instruments" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Akkordolia;
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In folk dance from the Alsace region, waltzes in odd metres such as 5 4, 8 4 and 11 4 are found. In modern bal folk, waltzes in even higher metres are played and danced. Estonian folk dance Labajalavalss (flat of the foot waltz) performed in 3 4 time. [27] Sama'i (also known as usul semai) is a vocal piece of Ottoman Turkish music composed in 6 ...
The jig is second in popularity only to the reel in traditional Irish dance; it is popular but somewhat less common in Scottish country dance music. It is transcribed in compound metre, being 6 8 time. The most common structure of a jig is two eight-bar parts, performing two different steps, each once on the right foot, and one on the left foot.
The Polish dance entered Ireland in the 1840s, but is not widely played outside of Donegal. [8] Unlike the Polish mazurek, which may have an accent on the second or third beat of a bar, the Irish mazurka ( masúrca in the Irish language ) is consistently accented on the second beat, giving it a unique feel.