And of course, the other thing to do is to work with dancers specializing in baroque dancing, quite an experience in terms of tempi !
Jean-Marie ======= 04-02-2009 08:09:51 ======= > >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 > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
