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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: December 2012
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Monday, December 31, 2012. Gavotte periods from French contredanse sources. In a post on my "Schubert blog" I wrote about the connection between the gavotte, the French contredanse, and the sudden uptick in use of the period theme (term after Caplin) in Viennese music in the 1770s: link to the post. NOTE: links updated 6-09-16]. The first two pieces come from a [ short treatise. In the early eighteenth century, as part of a broad shift away from the half note to the quar...
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: Rising lines in the Playford collections
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Rising lines in the Playford collections. Although rising cadence figures are by no means unknown before the mid-eighteenth century, I was surprised to find that the volumes of John Playford's [English] Dancing Master. Were a rich source for music with rising lines. I have created a PDF essay with examples: link to Playford. Note: link updated 6-09-16]. And here is a sample, "From Aberdeen":. Other blogs: Hearing Schubert D779n13.
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: February 2014
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Saturday, February 15, 2014. Improvised variations in the quadrille. Franz Hünten (aka François Hünten) published a Premier Quadrille de contredanses variées, suivi d'un galop. As his Opus 63. The date is about 1834; a facsimile is available on IMSLP. As a digital copy of the facsimile published in an anthology by Garland about twenty years ago. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other blogs: Hearing Schubert D779n13. Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music.
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: More on "The Moon and Seven Stars" (Calvert manuscript book)
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Monday, October 27, 2014. More on "The Moon and Seven Stars" (Calvert manuscript book). I was surprised to learn that "The Moon and Seven Stars" is a common fiddling tune. I was not surprised to find that the first C# in the final bar of the Calvert manuscript version is very likely a copying error. In notated versions readily available online, the end of both strains is identical: A-D-C#-D. See, for example, Seven Stars. Or listen to David Hansen.
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: Administrative
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Monday, March 10, 2014. 17 October 2014: This blog, dormant since March 2014, is being revived. Some posts about dance musics in the period 1650-1850 on my original blog Hearing Schubert D779n13. Will be moved here. Posts relating to William Caplin's form theory and its literature will be placed here, as well. A new blog, Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music. Schubert, Dance, and Dancing in Vienna, 1815-1840. Link to PDF essay. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Fun...
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: William Caplin's form theory and 18th century dance
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Monday, October 20, 2014. William Caplin's form theory and 18th century dance. The scholarly literature making use of William Caplin's form theory is growing, if slowly. Some recent examples include Nathan Martin's "Schumann's Fragment," in. 28 (2010); Steven Vande Moortele's "Sentences, Sentence Chains, and Sentence Replication: Intra- and Interthematic Formal Functions in Liszt's Weimar Symphonic Poems," in. 25 (2011); and Matthew Riley's "Haydn's Missing Middles," in.
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: January 2013
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Thursday, January 3, 2013. Air no. 3 in rondeau. To demonstrate how easily designs for social dance music can be (and almost certainly were) manipulated to create different sequences, here is Bacquoy-Guedon's Air no. 3 [ see previous post. Other examples of this kind of formal manipulation may be found in chapter 2 of my PDF essay Dance Designs in 18th and Early 19th Century Music. NOTE: link updated 6-09-16]. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. The introduction of eighth-note fig...
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: March 2014
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Monday, March 10, 2014. 17 October 2014: This blog, dormant since March 2014, is being revived. Some posts about dance musics in the period 1650-1850 on my original blog Hearing Schubert D779n13. Will be moved here. Posts relating to William Caplin's form theory and its literature will be placed here, as well. A new blog, Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music. Schubert, Dance, and Dancing in Vienna, 1815-1840. Link to PDF essay. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Fun...
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850: Additions to the literature on Caplin's form theory
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Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Additions to the literature on Caplin's form theory. This post expands on the previous one about William Caplin's form theory and the scholarly literature on it. For the present, this is simply a list of recently published articles. I hope to comment on individual items in future posts. I have not included work jointly published by or in response to Hepokoski and Darcy, Schmalfelt, and Caplin. Eastman School of Music) vol. 26 (2012). Additions ...
