Double (music)

Double (from French double "double"; also called diminution and division ) is a name for the repetition of a suite set with ornamentation . It is a variant form in the suite of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The note values ​​are doubled by refraction, i.e. H. eighth notes become sixteenth notes, etc. Later there were freer variations such as in Robert de Visée (for example as Double de la Courante ). With the double, only the basic structure of melody , harmony and rhythm is retained.

A well-known example of the use of doubles is Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita I from the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin . Each of the four polyphonic movements is followed by a unanimous double.

See also

• Diferencia
• Glosa (music)

literature

• Konrad Ragossnig : Manual of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 107.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adalbert Quadt : Guitar music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1-4. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970 ff .; 2nd edition ibid 1975-1984, volume 4, p. 22 f.