Basse danse

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Basse danse

The Basse danse or Basse dance (French; "low dance, deep dance", also bassedanse , plural basses danses ; Italian bassa danza or bassadanza , plural bassedanze ) is a slow, majestic step dance in a straight beat, performed in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century was widespread at the European royal courts. The term bas ("low", in contrast to the haute danse ) refers to the complete absence of hopping and jumping.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Basse danse was a separate dance genre with fixed steps and figures. In addition, the term was also used in a more general sense for all slow, courtly dances, such as the pavane and the later sarabande . These dances were usually combined with a faster haute danse than night dance . The Basse danse in the narrower sense forms a pair with the faster Tourdion , like the Pavane with the Gaillarde or the Allemande with the Courante , or is the first of three parts ( Basse danse , Retour or Recoupe and Tordion or Tourdion )

The oldest evidence for the expression Basse danse comes from an Occitan poem by Raimon de Cornet from around 1320. Descriptions of the dance form Basse danse have come down to us from Domenico da Piacenza (1455), Guglielmo Ebreo and Antonio Cornazzano . Composed examples can be found in the printed sheet music by Pierre Attaingnant (1529, 1530, 1547–1557) and Tielman Susato (1551) as well as in the orchésography (dance instructions) by Thoinot Arbeau (1588).

The Basse danse “La brosse” published by Pierre Attaignant (Paris 1529 and 1530) is probably the oldest polyphonic suite or orchestral suite.

literature

  • Music in the past and present : Article “Basse danse”, Vol. 1, 1949.
  • Konrad Ragossnig : Manual of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 104 f.
  • Hans Dagobert Bruger (Ed.): Pierre Attaignant. Two and three-part solo pieces for the lute. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel / Zurich 1926, pp. 3–24 and 28–35.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See also Bassa Toscana and Bassa Honorata , dance pieces in the Il Ballarino collection by Fabritio Caroso from the year 1581. Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, pp. 17 and 19.
  2. ↑ See Thoinot Arbeau : Orchésographie. 1589.
  3. ↑ Dixhuit basses dances. Paris 1529. In it, for example, the Basses danses La Roque , Patience , La Brosse and Tous mes amys . See Hans Dagobert Bruger (Ed.): Pierre Attaignant, two and three-part solo pieces for the lute. Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel / Zurich 1926.
  4. ^ Friedrich Blume : Studies on the prehistory of the orchestral suite in the 15th and 16th centuries. Leipzig 1925, p. 67 ff., 96 f. and 122 ff.
  5. ↑ Hans Dagobert Bruger (Ed.): Pierre Attaignant. Two and three-part solo pieces for the lute. 1926, p. 11 f. (Author possibly "PB") and 33.