Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2001/03

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Landler of Mozart Ornamented
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:18:28 -0500

Here are a few of the things I've been reading.

Wye Jamison Allanbrook, "Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart", 1983, U. of
Chicago Press

Rebecca Harris-Warrick, "Ballroom Dancing at the Court of Louis XIV,"
Early Music 14 (1): 41-49, 1989

Wendy Hilton, "Dance of Court and Theater: The French Noble Style
1690-1725" 1981, London Dance Books.

Article on the minuet as found in the The New Grove

GEnnaro Magri's "Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing" London
Books, 1988

Eric McKee, "The Influence of the Functional Minuet in the French Suites
of J.S. Bach," 1999 Music Analysis 18 (2)

Sarah Rechart, "The Influence of the Eighteenth-Century Social Dance on
the Viennese Classical Style," 1984, Ph. D. diss., City University of
New York

Tilden Russell, "Minuet, Scherzando, and Scherzo: The Dance Movement in
Transition, 1781-1825," 1983, Ph. D. diss., Univ. of North Carolina.

Same author: "The Unconvential Dance Minuet: Choreographies of the
Menuet d'Exaudet," Acta Musicology 64.

Erik Smith, Mozart Serenades, Divertimento and Dances, 1982. London
British Broadcast Company. (This one I have to get from London)

Giovanni Gallini, "A Treatise on the Art of Dancing," Facsimile edition,
Broude Brothers.

Also see the Library of Congress digited dance collection:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html

There are also a pile in German and French if you can handle those.

Anne Bell wrote:
>
> It is my understanding that the Minuett has slowed down from its first
> introduction as a dance like many of the early dances as they became
> formalized and stylized. I've garnered most of this information from my
> local early music guru who reads widely and constantly. I did recently buy
> a book with the steps and instructions for early dances- I'll let you know
> if it has anything relevant.
> Best Wishes,
> Anne
>
> At 09:22 AM 2/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >My understanding of tempos is that a Menuett is quite slow - quarter note
> >equalling anywhere from 100 down to 80. I know that modern practice has
> >everyone playing faster, but perhaps those of you who dance Menuetts can
> >tell us what a good tempo is. The Menuetts I've seen danced were in this
> >tempo, and there is a wonderful recording of the Gran Partitta (notice
> >corrected spelling, per earlier discussion) with Moyese coaching that has
> >the first menuett in this tempo. Quite good when done with the kind of
> >phrasing that tempo requires.
> >I've always understood a Menuett to be felt in Three, where a Landler would
> >be in a slow one, in a similar tempo with the emphasis on the First beat (I
> >know a previous post recommended Three and cited the Brahms f minor sonata
> >second strain, third movement - I'd like to see you pulse the third beat of
> >bar three of that strain! - I think the Polonaise/Polacca is the one that
> >gets the third beat emphasis)
> >
> >Sean Osborn, clarinetist - retired, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
> >http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/4401/
> >http://www.mp3.com/metopera/
>
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