I am very glad that you were all sarabound to get out of that sarabind.
It's been a very interesting & educational discussion, addressing an
annoying little uncertainty that has never been so directly &
comprehensively addressed to my satisfaction before.
Way back in the 1980's my wife and I were a bass viol & virginal duo
named "Sarabande", we played gigs all over the SE Pennsylvania, southern
New Jersey & northern Delaware region. For wedding gigs we had to adapt
pavins, allemandes, (even the occasional saraband) and Masque dances to
actual movements; processionals and somewhat more vigorous recessionals.
No lute problems, never used my lutes for these gigs!
The highlight engagement was an all-out period gig at the Dupont estate-
live candles all over a huge fir tree, and more candles throughout the
rooms as the only source of illumination (reading the music was a chore,
one learns why earlier generations went to bed or early or went blind if
they worked late) thousands of yards of 18 century drapes, table cloths,
& clothing in a Colonial era wooden mansion. I had my eyes on the
fastest escape routes all through the evening.
Dan
On 12/18/2014 6:06 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
I think you were - the relevant quotes are taken exactly from the
emails you sent earlier (now deleted from your reply) and were not
edited by me in any way!
Ah well - but good that it's finally now agreed there ought to be some
relationship between a solo lute performance of a dance and the tempo
at which was danced.
Martyn
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