![]() ![]() The music of the Renaissance (I think) was very rhythmic to a startling degree - something our young people might want to dance to. He was left up in the air.Įarlier last year I was doing some first explorations of music history and looked up music from the periods as I went along. ![]() He concluded that whatever it is that he was playing was not meant to be played as the dance but had become stylized. His playing was undanceable, but if he played according to her specifications, the music was unplayable or unpleasant as I recall. He interviewed a well known period dance instructor, and he played various minuets to which she commented. If you really want to get into it, there is an article somewhere on Internet where a cellist wanted to get to the bottom of this question. I think this minuet example is even clearer on the accent on measure two: Is this just my interpretation? As a side note, this is also how I hear (and have played - rightly or wrongly) the Minuet in G Major attributed to Christian Petzold.) So, is the accent on the second beat or the even measures? In the first video I feel the meter as being one two three ONE two three - accent on the second measure not second beat. In the second video keystring posts, I can see the two measure pattern. The dance is also typically performed in step units of two measures in contrast to the music. ![]() Which means there is one beat per measure broken into three pulses per beat and two taps (what the author considers the smallest note value typically used in the piece) per pulse. Bach." (A book I picked up to try to get a feel for what is different about the different baroque dance styles.)įrom what I am reading in this book, the Minuet is a dance of the following metrical structure: I've been looking over the sections covering the Minuet in "Dance and the Music of J. ![]()
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