![]() ![]() This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players, more than any others, inaugurated this era of popularity for the instrument, all Italian immigrants to the United States: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro. In some countries however, such as Brazil and Mexico, the accordion continues to be a fixture in pop music and its popularity is undiminished. With rise of the popularity of the guitar (in particular the electric guitar) and rock music, the popularity of the accordion in pop music in Europe and North-America declined strongly. The accordion was heard frequently in popular music beginning around 1910 until about 1960. "Weird Al" Yankovic playing a Roland FR-7 V-Accordion It has even been idealized in literature. It would be hard to name one country in which the accordion did not play a significant role in its music tradition. Sometimes, certain traditional music styles may even be tied to a certain type of accordion, like the Schrammel accordion for Schrammelmusik, the Trikitixa for Basque music, or the diatonic button accordion in Mexican conjunto and norteño music. Although rarely seen, many early bigband (swing bands like Glenn Miller's) scores have the Piano part marked "Piano/Piano Accordion" See the list of traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion. Since its invention, the accordion has become popularly integrated into a lot of varying traditional music styles all over the world, ranging from the European polka and the Colombian Vallenato to Korean trot music. Even if you lost the melody it still sounded fine." The instrument needed no tuning and was always ready to play, but the most ingenious thing about the early one-row squeezebox was that you couldn't play it really badly. It was also the prototype of a 'one man band' with bass and chords on the left-hand side and buttons for the melody on the right, and you could still sing along and beat the rhythm with your feet. It could easily be heard in even the wildest pub above the stomping of dancing feet. Firstly, it was much louder than all the older folk instruments put together. ![]() The mid-19th-century accordion became a favorite of folk musicians for several reasons: "The new instrument's popularity was a result of its unique qualities. The accordion was spread across the globe by the waves of Europeans who emigrated to various parts of the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century. And from these two great centers of fashion, empire, and influence, the polka diffused rapidly upward into the rest of French and English society and outward to the rest of the world." Įxcept for a brief moment in time during the 1830s and 1840s when the accordion was heard by French aristocracy during Salon music concerts, the instrument has always been associated with the common people. A week or so later it took London by storm. In March 1844, polka-mania took Paris: common people, servants, workers and, one assumes, anyone else who wasn't too stuffy were dancing the polka in the streets of the capital and soon in Bordeaux and other French cities as well. "Once the polka became a craze in Paris and London during the spring of 1844, it diffused rapidly to the rest of the world. A 19th-century accordion, in the collection of The Children's Museum of IndianapolisĪfter the invention of the accordion in 1829, its popularity spread throughout the world, in no small measure due to the polka craze.
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