Introduction to Baroque Dance
Dance Types

 


•Introduction to Chorégraphie published by Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700, a source explaining a system of dance notation used to preserve over 350 social and theatrical dances

•8-measure sequence from Chorégraphie showing how the sequence corresponds to 4 different music melodies, each in a different meter

•Step Timing

•Courante – intro

Dance in Tryon Palace
La Bocanes [courante]
Dance - Anonymous in manuscript
Music - Anonymous in Air de danses (1700)

•Menuet – intro

Dance in Tryon Palace
Menuet ordinaire
Dance - Reconstructed from Rameau’s Le Maître à Danser (1725)
Music - Anonymous Menuet XIV & IV in Anthony Pointel’s collection Deusiesme Recuiel des Dances et Contre-Dances (1688)

•Bourrée & Rigaudon – intro
(See The Villette danced in the Sarabande discussion.)

•Allemande – intro

Dance in Tryon Palace
L’Allemande
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour (1702)
Music - André Campra from Ballet des Fragmens de Lully (1702)

•Gavotte – intro

Dance from performance
Entrée pour une femme [gavotte]
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour [c1713]
Music - Jean-Baptiste Lully from Atys (1676)

•Sarabande – intro

Dance from performance
The Villette
Dance - F. Le Roussau in manuscript (1720)
Music - Anonymous (realized by Hugh Murphy)

•Gigue – intro

Dance from performance
Gigue pour une femme
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour [c1713]
Music - André Campra from Tancrède (1702)

•Loure – intro

Dance in Tryon Palace
Aimable Vainqueur
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour (1701)
Music - André Campra from Hésione (1700)

Dance from performance
Entrée pour une femme [loure]
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour [c1713]
Music - Theobaldo de Gatti from Scylla (1701)

•Entrée Grave – intro

Dance from performance
Entrée d’Apolon
Dance - Raoul-Auger Feuillet (1700)
Music - Jean-Baptiste Lully from Le Triomphe de l’Amour (1681)

•Passacaille & Chaconne – intro

Dance from performance
Passacaille pour une femme
Dance - Louis-Guillaume Pécour [c1713]
Music - Jean-Baptiste Lully from Armide (1686)

•Les Caractères de la Dance from performance

Choreography - Paige Whitley-Bauguess & Thomas Baird
Based on themes attributed to Françoise Prévost (1715)
Music - Jean-Féry Rebel (1715)

prelude, courante, menuet , bourrée, chaconne, sarabande, gigue, rigaudon, passepied, gavotte, sonate, loure, musette, sonate

Musicians
Hugh Murphy, dance music director
Julie Andrijeski, demonstration violinist

Julie Andrijeski & Risa Browder, baroque violin
John Pruett & Louise Thomas, baroque viola
John Moran, baroque cello
Hugh Murphy, harpsichord
Lance Pedigo, percussion

Production
Paige Whitley-Bauguess, producer & audio re-mix (2005)
Stuart Grasberg, director/videographer
Randy Fulp, videographer/audio recording

  

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