Counter dance
The contra dance or quadrille (French Contredanse , Contredance , "adversarial Dance", Eng. Folk etymology reinterpreted as Country Dance and in Scotland as Scottish Country Dance maintained) is incurred in the 16th century, originally English group dance, which in the 17th and Developed into a very popular ballroom dance in the 18th century . In the basic setup, the dancers face each other in pairs (hence the name). The couples can dance complicated figures. Therefore, the contratance is not yet a couple dance that signals isolated togetherness like today's standard dances , but emphasizes the commonality of larger societies.
The music consists of periods of eight bars each . With each period of music, the dancers change their movements and step shape. The music's melodies, usually in two-beat, are song-like, they are later found in vaudevilles . The counter dance established itself as a fashionable dance throughout Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries . Variations are for example the Quadrille , the Anglaise , the Ecossaise and the Cotillon . The square dance is a combination of English country dances with the French quadrille.
The counter dance also had influences on classical music . Wenzel Matiegka composed contredanses for the guitar, Ludwig van Beethoven composed twelve contretances for orchestral music ( WoO 14), of which he used the seventh (in E flat major ) in the finale of the Eroica .
An extensive collection of English counter dances was published by John Playford from 1650 under the title The English Dancing Master : A total of approx. 900 melodies of the ballroom dances of the time, including the associated dance descriptions. The underlying melodies were partly very old song melodies, which were often used in Playford's arrangements well into the 19th century. Nowadays, Playford's "Countrydances" are again part of the popular repertoire of many dance circles . Georg Götsch , who in 1950 published a selection of these dances under the title Old English Contra dances, made a significant contribution to this popularity in Germany . The Musische Gesellschaft initiated by Georg Götsch and others continue this tradition at Fürsteneck Castle, among others .
to form
There are two fundamentally different setups:
- contredanse anglaise : gentleman and lady face each other, the individual couples stand next to each other and form a long alley. As a rule, all men are on one side and all women are on the other.
- contredanse française : The gentleman is standing next to his lady, four couples are standing on the sides of a square, facing the opposite couple.
The Anglaise and the Française emerged from these two basic forms .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces op. 3 for guitar. Adapted from the original text [from the chemical printing works in Vienna from around 1814]. Edition Preißler, 1979 (= studio series guitar. Volume 3), p. 16 ( Contredanse ).
- ↑ Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces op. 3 for guitar. 1979, p. 16.
- ↑ Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces op. 3 for guitar. Adapted from the original text [from the chemical printing works in Vienna from around 1814]. Edition Preißler, 1979 (= studio series guitar. Volume 3), pp. 4, 7 and 11.