Evidently, there’s more than one way to dance the minuet! In the past, I’ve shared different steps to the French dance as seen in this video at a Baroque Bash in Fort Collins, Colorado. For some reason, Feuillet did not include minuet steps in his first edition of Choregraphie in 1700. As the dance manuals make clear there were a number of different versions of the step and various solutions to the issue of timing. Learn what these musical forms are and their. The pas de menuet has four steps to be performed over six musical beats, two bars of music in triple time. This post is an unexpected and exciting addendum to the activities included in Go Baroque. This is an easy, 32-count tango sequence with one step per beat throughout, described by Albert Newman of Philadelphia in 1914. The names of several musical forms match the dance to which they are paired, such as polka, march, gavotte, waltz, mazurka, minuet, and scherzo. You’ll also learn how teachers amplify this “back-in-time” immersion into a community festival. It includes repertoire, apps, off-bench activities and even tips on how to create powdered wigs for your digital natives to wear as they perform music from the time period. The notation is undated and has been ascribed to 1729, a date I accepted when I wrote about Pemberton in 1993 (references to the sources I have used are given at the end of the. It originated as a folk dance in Poitou, but as a court dance it took its form from the courante. Caverley’s Slow Minuet ‘A New Dance for a Girl’ was among the series of notated ball dances published by Edmund Pemberton between 17. My interest here is the pas de menuet, the step that defines the dance, and its musical timing. Mozart composed a series of 12 minuets as late as 1789. They give a variety of details and I am not going to work through all of them. To learn how to immerse your students in the Baroque period, follow this link to a resource I created a couple of years ago called Go Baroque. 1 Reply Between 16 more than twenty different sources provide information about how to dance the minuet. Just when students may think that the Baroque period seems irrelevant, the time is ripe to share that the famous canon from Pachelbel and his timeless chord progression come from the 17th century! Why? Because if I don’t expose students to this vibrant repertoire, who will? By the way, I always let my students choose from a couple of Baroque pieces and they always seem to find one they like, even REALLY like.īy the way, how many of your students ask to play that “canon” or “wedding” piece. I find ways to do so every couple of years so that as students progress, they manage to add a number of Baroque “hits” to their growing playlist.
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