Dear Arto There's a very big book from Klaus Miehling: Das Tempo in der Musik von Barock und Vorklassik, Wilhelmshaven (Florian Noetzel) verbesserte und stark erweiterte Neuausgabe 2003. ISBN 3-7959-0590-7 It's on my desktop ready for studies... And it's as always: The truth is not so simple! Very often there were different tempos for the same dance f.ex. for a Courante: a slower and a faster type.
Andreas Am 03.02.2009 um 22:05 schrieb [email protected]: > > Hi collective wisdom(?), > > what are the contemporary opinions of the "tempos" (=tempi) of French > baroque dances at the end of the 17th century and at the very > beginnings > of the 18th? Allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue, gavotte, menuet, > passagalia, etc.? As far as I know, there has been very different > interpretations of some original advice; differences varying by > factor 2! > > What is the true truth of today? :-) > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Andreas Schlegel Eckstr. 6 CH-5737 Menziken +41 (0)62 771 47 07 [email protected] --
