Conclusion

In conclusion “Jesusita en Chihuahua”, a Mexican Mariachi piece and “Tegernseer Polk”, a Bavarian Folk piece have many musical features in common. These are the tone colour, the compositional style and the form.

Tone color:

Their tone colour varies in different sections in both pieces and this is due to the instruments used. They are not the exact same ones, but they produce the similar tone colours. The Mexican piece is more string heavy, whereas the Bavarian piece is more brass heavy.

Compositional style:

All in all both pieces are instrumental and don’t contain vocals. Their basses play both on the 1^st and 3^rd beat on a 4/4 time pulse. Apart from that Antiphonal phrasing is used in both pieces.

A difference is that in the Mariachi piece there are instruments playing in unison, while in the Bavarian piece this is never the case.

Form:
The form of the Mexican Mariachi piece and the Bavarian Folk piece is “Compound ternary Form”, but the Mariachi piece does not have a completely regular “Compound ternary Form” because it has a short repetition of the A- and B-part and a slightly different version of A attached at the end.