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Book SynopsisPresents information on rhythm from the interrelated fields of music, dance, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: The King's Grand BallPart I: Features of the Dance Rythms 1 Reason and the Passions; 2 Arbeau's Dance Rythms; 3 Dance Rhythms from Early Guitar Sources; 4 Rythmic Movements in Mersenne's and Later Dance Music; 5 The Musical Measure; 6 Correspondence of Melodic and Poetic Rhythms in Lullian Dance Songs; 7 Rhetorial Proportions; 8 Step-units of la belle danse; 9 Symmetrical, Poetic, and Rhetorical Proportions of la belle danse; 10 Tempos and General Affects; 11 Marking the Musical Meter; 12 Lullian Bowing of Dance Rhythms; 13 Forceful Articulation of Lullian Dance Lyrics; 14 Articulation of Dance Rhythms in Concert Pieces; 15 Ornamenting Dance Rhythms; 16 Grouping Unslurred Quick Notes; 17 Summing Up--The Many Apsects of MovementPart II: Rhythmic Characteristics of Fifteen Dance Types 18 Allemandes; 19 Bourrees; 20 Canaries; 21 Chaconnes; 22 Courantes; 23 Folies; 24 Forlanes; 25 Gavottes; 26 Gigues; 27 Loure; 28 Menuets; 29 Passacailles; 30 Passepieds; 31 Rigaudons; 32 SarabandesAppendix: Six Complete Dance Songs
