And of course, the other thing to do is to work with dancers specializing in
baroque dancing, quite an experience in terms of tempi !
Jean-Marie
=== 04-02-2009 08:09:51 ===
Try to grab Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume's little book Les secrets de la musque
ancienne... It must be out of
Dear Arto
There's a very big book from Klaus Miehling: Das Tempo in der Musik
von Barock und Vorklassik, Wilhelmshaven (Florian Noetzel)
verbesserte und stark erweiterte Neuausgabe 2003. ISBN 3-7959-0590-7
It's on my desktop ready for studies...
And it's as always: The truth is not so simple!
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Andreas Schlegel wrote:
Very often there were
different tempos for the same dance f.ex. for a Courante: a slower
and a faster type.
Was it perhaps a matter of mood as well as tempo?
Davidr
dlu...@verizon.net
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Try to grab Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume's little book Les secrets de la musque
ancienne... It must be out of print by now, but maybe Abebooks.com can find it
? Another good read is, after all these years, Robert Donington's Early Music
and A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music. Lots of info about
