Dance and instrumental diferencias in Spain during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Volume I, History and background, music and dance / Maurice Esses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esses, Maurice, author.

Series:

Dance and music series.

Dance and music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Spain--History--17th century.

Dance.

Dance--Spain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 881 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, 1992.

Summary:

The intimately related phenomena of dance and instrumental variation were prominent features of Spanish culture during the 17th and early 18th centuries. These variations (diferencias) on a set piece of music or choreographed movement permeated the activities of professional and amateur musicians, secular and sacred festivities, and were cultivated by the aristocracy as well as the lower class. The incorporation of variation into the instrumental music which accompanied dance enabled the instrumentalists to produce pieces of sufficient length and diversity to accommodate the needs of the dancers on different occasions. As to the two volumes which will complete this set, Volume 2 supplies a complete inventory and transcription of th e extant instrumental dance pieces and variation sets (495 pieces plus 228 pasacalles), and Volume 3 will contain the original notes in Spanish.

Contents:

Dance and Variation

Spain and Western Europe

The Musical Environment in Spain

Publishing and Music Printing in Spain

Introduction

FiveCourse Guitar

Harp

Keyboard

The Uses of Dance in Spain

Choreographic Sources and Styles

Dancing Masters

Attitudes towards Dances and Dance Music

DanceNames and Musical Models

A Sources before 1800 Plus Later Facsimile Publications

B Sources after 1800 Including Facsimile Publications

Index

Copyright.

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