I would like to add that dance tempo changes still happen as music usage
& composer's whims dictate. Astor Piazzolla scandalized the traditional
tango world with his "Tango Nuevo" (however he phrased it) There are now
some very dark, slow, & rhythmically variable "tangos" out there now.
Some can even work on a good lute.
Dan
On 12/18/2014 8:41 AM, Dan Winheld wrote:
I am very glad that you were all sarabound to get out of that
sarabind. It's been a very interesting & educational discussion,
addressing an annoying little uncertainty that has never been so
directly & comprehensively addressed to my satisfaction before.
Way back in the 1980's my wife and I were a bass viol & virginal duo
named "Sarabande", we played gigs all over the SE Pennsylvania,
southern New Jersey & northern Delaware region. For wedding gigs we
had to adapt pavins, allemandes, (even the occasional saraband) and
Masque dances to actual movements; processionals and somewhat more
vigorous recessionals. No lute problems, never used my lutes for these
gigs!
The highlight engagement was an all-out period gig at the Dupont
estate- live candles all over a huge fir tree, and more candles
throughout the rooms as the only source of illumination (reading the
music was a chore, one learns why earlier generations went to bed or
early or went blind if they worked late) thousands of yards of 18
century drapes, table cloths, & clothing in a Colonial era wooden
mansion. I had my eyes on the fastest escape routes all through the
evening.
Dan
On 12/18/2014 6:06 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
I think you were - the relevant quotes are taken exactly from the
emails you sent earlier (now deleted from your reply) and were not
edited by me in any way!
Ah well - but good that it's finally now agreed there ought to be
some
relationship between a solo lute performance of a dance and the
tempo
at which was danced.
Martyn
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