Amener
The Amener was a courtly dance from 17th century France in a moderate three-beat, which developed from the Branle . Its characteristics were units of 6 bars, which usually consisted of two units either three bars each or two and four bars. It was not danced in a circle, but in a free serpentine line through the room, with a dancer leading the way. The name comes from "Branle à mener" (French "mener" = "to lead", thus about "Branle under leadership"), initially he was also Branle de Poictou ( Marin Mersenne (1588–1648): Harmonie universelle 1636/37; Pierre Attaingnant (Paris, 1529)), later only called Amener. Under Louis XIV. And XV. France only danced two Branles, a Branle à mener and a Gavotte at court balls at the opening. The opinion is expressed ( Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) and Pierre Rameau (1674–1748) (both quoted after the so far cautiously distant “New Grove”), as well as Paul Nettl (1889–1972)) that the Amener is one early form of the minuet , but this is also disputed (Brunner in MGG).
The Amener is still of importance today as the designation of a movement in a sequence of pieces of music (just like gavotte, sarabande , gigue , minuet, etc.) for baroque composers. It appears in theater dances by Alessandro Poglietti (d. 1683) and suites by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1662–1746).
literature
- Willi Apel : Italian violin music in the 17th century. Wiesbaden 1983, p. 95 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Wolfgang Brunner : Branle. In: Music in the past and present . 2nd Edition. 1995, part volume 2, column 98.
- Amener. In: The New Grove , Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd Edition. 2001, p. 465.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Dagobert Bruger (Ed.): Pierre Attaignant, two- and three-part solo pieces for the lute. Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel / Zurich 1926, pp. 2 and 7 f. (Three Branles Poictou ).