Passepied
The passepied is a historical French round dance of baroque music from the 16th and 17th centuries.
The passepied was often part of the baroque dance suite and was initially notated in (also anonymous) tablatures . In the original form, danced in a moderately fast straight beat, over time it developed into an ever faster dance in three beats (3/8, 3/4 or 6/8, mostly upbeat). Sometimes there are also clock changes in Passepieds. With Johann Sebastian Bach , for example, the dance appears in the 1st orchestral suite and in the 5th English suite . Two fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier also have the character of a passepied - F major from the first part and B minor from the second part.
Johann Mattheson wrote about the passepied: … with the restlessness and fickleness of such a passepied, the zeal, anger or heat that one encounters with a fleeting jig is not found for a long time . In the meantime it has become a kind of recklessness that has nothing hated or displeasing about it, but rather something pleasant about it.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 3 (1975), pp. 5 f. (Three passepieds around 1700).