Volta (dance)

Volta

List of all dances
Type :	Couple dance , historical dance
Rhythm :	3/4 time
Origin :	Provence
Creation time :	16th Century

With Volta or Volte (also Wolte ; english volts , Italian and La volta ) was a common in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, the physical pleasure and spirited couple dance called. The dance in ³ / ₄ time from 16th century Provence is (like the saltarello and the tourdion ) similar to the gaillarde and a liquid courante , and it does not seem impossible to see the volta as a forerunner of the waltz . The 16th century scandal dance - the underskirt revealing volta - became Elizabeth I's favorite dance . The volta was viewed as lewd because its lively movements and twists, whirling the ladies through the air, allowed a glimpse of the legs and to catch the petticoats. As a close couple dance, there was always the opportunity to indecent touch: " en faisant full la robbe, monstroit tousjours quelque chose agréable à la veue, dont j'en ay veu plusieurs s'y perdre et s'en ravir entre eux-mêmes " (Brantôme 1666, quoted from Curt Sachs: Eine Weltgeschichte des Tanzes . Berlin 1933, p. 252).

music

In the suites of the 17th century, the volta takes on the role of the final dance. Michael Praetorius' Terpsichore from 1612 is one of the most important collections of volts of this time with 48 volts. The volta is usually structured regularly and tends to form manageable phrases.

La Volte de Provence , from: J. D'Estrée Tiers Livre de danseries, P. 1559 fol. 9

Lute pieces by Adrian Le Roy and Giulio Cesare Barbetta as well as Jean-Baptiste Besard , Georg Leopold Fuhrmann , Carolous Bocquet , Antoine Francisque and anonymously (around 1600) have survived as instrumental versions .

literature

Michael Lutz: Galliarde. Volte. Tordiglione . In: Music in the past and present . 2nd Edition. Sachteil, Volume 3. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7618-1104-7 , Sp. 989-998.

Michael E. Lutz, Daniel Heartz : Volte [adaptation]. In: Music in the past and present . 2nd Edition. Sachteil, Volume 9. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1128-4 , Sp. 1761–1763.

Web links

Robert Donington: Volta (i) [lavolta, levolto]. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Elizabeth in the Internet Movie Database "Are we dancing a volta?"

Individual evidence

^ Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, Introduction.
^ Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 117.
^ Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, pp. 43-47.
↑ Frederick Noad: The Renaissance Guitar. (= The Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology. Part 1) Ariel Publications, New York 1974; Reprint: Amsco Publications, New York / London / Sydney, UK ISBN 0.7119.0958.X, US ISBN 0.8256.9950.9, p. 35.

[1] Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, Introduction.

[2] Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 117.

[3] Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, pp. 43-47.

[4] Frederick Noad: The Renaissance Guitar. (= The Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology. Part 1) Ariel Publications, New York 1974; Reprint: Amsco Publications, New York / London / Sydney, UK ISBN 0.7119.0958.X, US ISBN 0.8256.9950.9, p. 35.