Tambourine (dance)

The tambourine is a French stage dance from the high baroque period .

Originally the word referred to a type of drum and in the theater it developed into a metonym of a dance for performers of seafarers or gondoliers. Alcione by Marin Marais contains the Air de matelots, a piece that shows some of the many time signatures: 6/8, 2 and 4/8. Sometimes a score contains a note that drums should be played, or the melody should be played by small flutes, as in folk music in which the player flutes one-handed and drums with one hand. Solo dancers, couples or groups came into consideration for the very fast dance, which from the 1720s on was in 2/4 time, mainly with eighth notes.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Rebecca Harris-Warrick: Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera. A history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-13789-9 , p. 433.

[Harris_Warrick_2016_433-1] A ^b ^c ^d Rebecca Harris-Warrick: Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera. A history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-13789-9 , p. 433.