Farandole

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Farandole by Hans Thoma (1884)

The Farandole , from Provencal Farandoulo , is a historical Provencal folk dance in fast 6/8 time , in which an open dance , led by a dancer, dances different figures.

The musical accompaniment is provided by a player with a one-handed flute and tambourine , behind whom the dancers move through the streets. The dance takes place in a chain of couples who hold hands or are connected by shawls. In doing so, they move in spirals and entanglements.

Various Internet sites (e.g.) and older encyclopedias (Brockhaus from 1968: p. 56) suggest that the Farandole dates from the 14th century, but always without being able to provide medieval citations. Due to the round dance form , folk dance researchers have suspected a medieval or even ancient origin of the Farandole (e.g. Alford 1932, Baumel 1958). However, at least the word “farandole” was unknown in the Middle Ages, as it does not appear in dictionaries of the Old French and Old Occitan languages ​​(Mullally 2011: p. 35) and its earliest mention of the year 1776 in France (“farandoule”) and 1876 in England ("Farandola") can be dated.

Georges Bizet composed a cheerful farandole in his incidental music for Alphonse Daudet's L'Arlesienne . In the ballet Sleeping Beauty , a farandole appears at the beginning of the second act. A farandole is also played at the beginning of the second act in Charles Gounod's opera "Mireille".

Web links

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Wiktionary: Farandole  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ worlds-of-music.de
  2. ↑ naxos.com
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia in twenty volumes . Seventeenth completely revised edition of the Grossen Brockhaus. Volume 6. F – GEB. FA Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1968
  4. ↑ Violet Alford: The Farandole . In: Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society , 1, 1932, pp. 18-33.
  5. ^ Jean Baumel: Les Danses populaires, les farandoles, les rondes, les jeux choréographiques et les ballets du Languedoc méditerranéan . Institut d'études occitanes, Paris 1958.
  6. ^ Robert Mullally: The Carole. A Study of a Medieval Dance . Ashgate Publishing, Burlington 2011.
  7. ^ Paul Robert (Ed.): Le Grand Robert de la langue francaise . 1985
  8. ↑ J. Stainer, WABarret: A Dictionary of Musical Terms. 1876