1700.2/04 - La Contredance

ISMN M-50200-022-6 • FL/1700.2/04 • LM 2140

La Contredance

La contredance, Feuillet, 1702,
Xerxes, Lully, 1660

score & voices - download version
13 pages: 4 scores, 7 for 5-voices

Here I present - in result of an intensive historical research including preserved operas, collections and songbooks dating form the 17;century - scores and notations taken from more then hundred if the most wonderful stage dances of the baroque period.

Each sheet consists of score and individual voices of a baroque stage dance taken from the original print and rendered in modern notation with G-clefs and F-clefs. The middle voices are shown with both clefs.

The lines of score and voices are consistent with the original choreography and numerals indicate the page of the Feuillet notation. In addition repetitions are often written-out. This improves the communication between dancers and musicians vice versa.

According to the historical performance praxis many notation systems which correspond to the choreography sheets start with an upbeat. (e.g. Sarabande, Gigue, Chaconne, Gavotte and other dances)

An email order for continuously noted scores is possible on request.

The tempi of the Baroque Dances
By the linked page you will find some information about how to play the music in a proper tempo.

PDF version as download
The files are easy and fast to download whiteout any delivery costs.
Moreover the sheets can be printed everywhere.

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The notes are free of GEMA, that is no fee is charged at the event announcement.