 Dance and the music of J. S. Bach.
Author: Little, Meredith & Natalie Jenne Published: 1991, 2001 French dance practices in the cities and courts where Bach lived and worked, and a discussion of the dance forms which he used, with annotations of all his named dances. The authors draw on choreographies, theorists' writings, and the music of other seventeenth and eighteenth century composers in order to arrive at a modek for each dance type. (This is a revised an expanded edition of the book, with additional information on the giga and on dance rhythms in larger works.) |
