Image (1)
Zum Spielen und zum Tantzen
The dance titles of J. S. Bach's cello suites, derived from French court dance, clearly meant more to the composer than just abstract references. In Bach's time, dance practice permeated social life, and an intimate knowledge of fashionable dance forms was indispensable for a musician. The movements and gestures of these dances inevitably had a profound influence on performance style.
I have investigated how the practice of Baroque dance could influence my interpretation of the Bach suites. Learning the essentials of this style and its original choreographies and frequently accompanying dancing, I also explored the dance aspect of the cello suites by way of experiments with historical tempos as well as melodic and rhythmic reductions of the musical material.
Through this project, I hope to make a worthy contribution to the development of performance practice studies, offering a recontextualisation of Bach’s work that emphasises the close links between the expressive gestures of music and dance. The results have both artistic and pedagogic potential as tools to discover essential aspects of dance character in Baroque music.
Affiliation: Norwegian Academy of Music, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
Tags
allemande bach baroque dance body paradigm bourrée cello suites cello solo corrente courante feuillet gavotte giga gigue hip j. s. bach la belle danse minuet pécour rameau sarabande taubert tomlinson artistic research dance character dance tempo kinaesthetic empathy melodic reduction applied fine performing arts issue 11 jar - journal for artistic research
Queries
Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research - Issue 11 Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research Applied Fine Performing Arts catalog - mediathek catalog - network catalog - Artists catalog - HGK catalog - HGKplus
Full spec
- AccessDate
- 2021-04-15T13:32:38Z
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.103350
- DateAdded
- 2021-04-22T13:13:08Z
- DateModified
- 2021-08-10T11:54:30Z
- Issue
- 11
- Key
- RNG44NCX
- Language
- en
- LibraryCatalog
- www.researchcatalogue.net
- PublicationTitle
- Journal for Artistic Research
- Rights
- Open Closed