Pronounced Zvee-Facher (with one of those hard ch'es we don't have in
English) Zweifacher is a fun spinning dance from Bavaria, or maybe Scandinavia, or perhaps somewhere else.
Unlike most music, that picks some particular time signature and stays with it, Zweifacher mixes measures of three beats (where you turn 180 degrees with three steap and say waltz) and measures of two beats (where you turn 180 degrees in one step and say pivot).
These mixes of measures are combined into a package, and that package is repeated several times to make one whole dance.
Usually written as a mix of P and W (for pivot and waltz), some are as simple as "PPWW". There seems to be no upperbound for the complexity. I do a 5/4 Waltz which could be written "WP", but no one has ever tried to call it a Zweifacher.
Here are some examples from a tape I acquired some time ago :
- Eisenkeilnest
- (PPWW)2 PW PW PPWW
- Leit, leit, leitl müassts lusti sein
- (PPW WW)3 PPWW
- Tauberer
- (4W 4P WW)2 (8W 4W 4P WW)2
- Deifi du dürrer
- (WPP)7 WW
- Sechs Löffel
- 6P WW
- ‘s Luada
- (PP WW)4 32P
- Neun Häuser
- (WW 3P)3 3W
- Nagelschmied
- 12 W = A; PPWW = B
sequence is : A B, A 2B, A 3B, A 4B, A 3B, A 2B, A B
- Schubkarn
- (WW PP)4 16P
- Sommermichl
- (4P WW)2 4W (4P WW)2 (WPP)3 WW
- Sechsunddreissiger
- (WW PP)2 WW 4P (WW PP)2
- Da hupfate Vügl
- WW 4P
- Bayerischer Bauer
- (WW PP)2 4W PPW PPWW
- Schneider
- (PPW PPWW)2 (PPWP PPWW)2
- Eisenkeilnest
- (PPWW)2 PW PW PPWW
- Wirt vo Stoa
- (WPP)2 WW
- Der Wampertgust
- 4P WW
- Schelin-ober
- (W 3P W 2P W 3P WP)2
(P WP 2W P 3W 3P WP)2
BUT 1st and 3rd times, the final WP is a WW
- Hans Sachs
- WW PP
- Hopfenschnupfer
- (PP WW)2 PW 3W (3P WW)2
- 44 Hühne und 1 Hahn
- PP WW PP 3W 4 Polka PP 3W