>>=20 >> How come "pas de passacalle" is in Feuillet's Choregraphie from 1713?
Evidently by that time the French had created a dance for it, possibly an= outgrowth of its use in stage and/or chamber music: "In France the Hispanic-Italian passacaglia, like the chaconne, was= transformed during the mid-17th century into a distinctive native genre,= although before that the genre had already had some impact as an exotic= Spanish import. A passacalle(in the earlier sense of ritornello) occurs in= an air to a Spanish text by De Bailly (1614), and in 1623 the Spanish= expatriate Luis de Bri=E7e=F1o published in Paris a guitar method that= included in chord tablature brief chaconnes and passacaglias similar to the= early Italian examples. During the 1640s the promotion of Italian music and= musicians by Cardinal Mazarin brought wider familiarity with the two genres= in their newer incarnations. A harpsichord passacaglia by Luigi Rossi (who= visited Paris in 1646 and whose Orfeo was performed there the following= year) enjoyed wide manuscript circulation. Francesco Corbetta, who settled= in Paris around 1648 and became guitar teacher to the future Louis XIV, was= perhaps the greatest Italian guitar virtuoso of his time, and the composer= of numerous chaconnes and passacaglias. By the late 1650s the French passacaglia tradition was firmly in place,= already showing many of the characteristics that would mark the genre= during the later 17th century and the 18th. Like the chaconne, the= passacaglia was cultivated both in chamber music, especially by guitarists,= lutenists and keyboard players, and on the musical stage." (New Grove) This page from Kellom Tomlinson's dance treatise shows the steps for a= passacaille. the accompanying music is not the bass line but a melody. Caroline http://www.bllearning.co.uk/live-extracts/108337/=20 ********************************* Caroline Usher, DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155, Box 91000 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
