Chapter 14 Listen to Music for Dancing Dancing

Chapter 14 Listen to Music for Dancing

Dancing • Long un-recorded history • Most often with Music

Dancing • Suite • Baroque Dance Suite – Overture (call to the dance floor) – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue

Dance Suites • Standardized Forms – Binary – Ternary

Dance Suites • Keyboard Dance Suites – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750) – Francois Couperin (1668 -1733) – Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (16671729) • Orchestral Dance Suites – George Philip Telemann (1681 -1767)

Dance Suites • George Frideric Handel (1685 -1758) – Water Music – Music for the Royal Fireworks

Water Music • 3 Suites: 22 Dances – Suite in F Major – Suite in G Major – Suite in D Major • Celebration on the Thames River – July 17, 1717 – 50 Musicians • A gift of penance?

Water Music: Air • Form A B A’ B’ abab ca’ca’ a’b’ ca’ca’ Meter: Duple Simple Unequal Notes Mode: Major Phrasing: regular phrasing for dancing

Water Music: Minuet • Number 3 – Triple Meter – Ternary Form • Form: A B A abaabb Major ccddee Minor aabb Major

Water Music: Hornpipe • Sea song • Meter: Triple Simple • Form: Ternary: –A B – abaabcddbb (4 note motif) A abaabcddbb

Music for Dancing • Universal features of dance music – Regular phrasing – Simple beat structure – Simple melodies – Regular formal structures