Try to grab Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume's little book "Les secrets de la musque ancienne"... It must be out of print by now, but maybe Abebooks.com can find it ? Another good read is, after all these years, Robert Donington's "Early Music" and "A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music". Lots of info about what the treatises said about tempo at the time of Lully and after.
Best, Jean-Marie ======= 03-02-2009 22:05:07 ======= >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 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [email protected] http://poirierjm.free.fr 04-02-2009
