Annotation:Cologne Polka

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COLOGNE POLKA. American (?), Polka (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The melody appears as fifth figure of Boston publisher Elias Howe's "Star Polka Quadrille." The dance figures for the polka are also given in Howe's American Dancing Master and Ball-Room Prompter (Boston, 1862).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Howe (Musician's Omnibus No. 1), 1862; p. 59.

Recorded sources:

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