MUS 048 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: John Philip Sousa, Baroque Dance, Jig

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Music (MUS)
• Course: MUS 048
• Professor: Professor Morrongiello

Document Summary

We sampled italian and german music of baroque era, and turn now to french tradition. Paris was center for ballet, which has always been a strong feature of french opera - and french opera of baroque era was grand and spectacular. Admirer writes of great opera composer jean-philippe rameau. Distinguished by features originally associated with dance steps - certain meter, distinctive tempo, and some rhythmic attributes. Minuet - a simple dance in triple time at a moderate tempo. Sarabande - little more intricate; also in triple time, it has an accent on second beat of the measure as well as normal accent on the first. Suite - group a collection of miscellaneous dances together in a genre. Which dances occurred in a suite was note subject to any rule, nor any specified order. All dances in suite are in the same key, and last of them was always fast;