The allemande, the balletto, and the Tanz / Richard Hudson.

Author/creator Hudson, Richard
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Description2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Dance music--16th century. --History and criticism.
Dance music--17th century. --History and criticism.
Dance music--18th century. --History and criticism.
Allemande.
Allemandes--History and criticism.

Contents v. 1. The history -- v. 2. The music.
Contents v. 1. Part I: The Renaissance. The deutscher tanz for lute, cittern, and keyboard in Germany 1540-1603 ; The almande for lute, guitar, cittern, and instrumental ensemble in France and the low countries 1546-1603 ; The balletto tedesco for lute, keyboard, and ensemble in Italy 1561-1615 -- Part II. The transition. Vecchi, Gastoldi, and the vocal balletto in Italy during the 1590s ; The vocal ballett and the instrumental almain for keyboard, plucked strings, and ensemble in England 1550-1650 ; The vocal and instrumental ballet for lute in France in 1603-1619 ; The vocal and instrumental tanz, ballett, and allmand in Germany in 1598-1628 ; The vocal and instrumental balletto in Italy 1615-1640 -- Part III. The Baroque period. The allemande for lute, clavecin, guitar, viol, and ensemble in France 1630-1731 ; The balletto and alemanda for guitar keyboard, and ensemble in Italy 1640-1730 ; The allemande and ballett for ensemble and keyboard in Germany and England 1636-1750.
Partial contents v. 2. The tanz, the ballett, and the allemande in Germany -- The almande, the ballet, and the allemande in France and the Low Countries -- The balletto tedesco, the alemanda, and the balletto in Italy -- The almain, the ballett, and the almand in England.
Abstract This two-volume study examines a dance-form whose development is crucially bound up with European musical history over two hundred years. The history of the late baroque Allemande of Bach and Handel began in the 1540s in Nuremberg, with a new type of Tanz. This Deutscher Tanz spread to france and the Low Countries as the Almande, to England as the Almain, and to Italy as the Balletto Tedesco. All these versions influences each other as the form developed through Renaissance and Baroque Europe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 85004163
ISBN0521331080 (set)
ISBN9780521331081 (set)
ISBN0521248523 (v. 1)
ISBN9780521248525 (v. 1)
ISBN052130167X (v. 2)
ISBN9780521301671 (v. 2)