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Dances
Aug 15, 2023 9:10:00 GMT
Post by Zi on Aug 15, 2023 9:10:00 GMT
Helen Hooker has looked at the dances that one quite often comes across when playing the recorder. I must admit, I've played quite a number of them over the years. Some of them were already familiar to me mostly via the Elizabethan dramatists I think. Anyway, she has a description of them and some vids of people actually dancing them. I always think it's useful to see how they were; some of the dances were surprisingly energetic. I'm always impressed at that given the complexity of the clothes. Helen's Blog
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Dances
Aug 15, 2023 10:52:48 GMT
Post by keff on Aug 15, 2023 10:52:48 GMT
It would do me good to research the the baroque dances that Bach had in mind writing the French Suites. The Allemande, Courante, Saraband, Minuet and Gigue.
Fabrics and sewing is something that both other half and myself find interest (other half more so). In the middle ages I would imagine the upper classes would have woven fabrics for clothing and everyone else felted. Just guessing.
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Dances
Aug 15, 2023 11:34:40 GMT
Post by Zi on Aug 15, 2023 11:34:40 GMT
I wondered whether to put this in Recorder or elsewhere as it really is a bit wider than recorder but the recorder is only thing I can even pretend to know something about musically speaking.
I'm interested in weaving. It tends to be something I do in winter and then I obsessively design patterns which I then weave samples of. I keep promising to take some of them and weave a serious length but so far I haven't. I just obsessively weave another sample. My husband loves the samples and wants to stick them in a frame on the wall but it doesn't really make any sense to me. They're just obsessively woven samples... Anyway, that brings me to The Wife of Bath who says that she was an excellent weaver and better than those from Holland so I too assume wool was common in the middle ages and for the rich would have been a fine cloth. British wool was prized as it was very soft. The wool trade was certain important. Felted wool is really rather special. The samples I weave tend to be in wool which really changes once you wash it. It's always fun to see the samples before and after washing.
The dances are fascinating. There are a lot of references to dancing through the Tudor period. As I say, it's surprising how energetic some of the dances were. Yes, I agree - they warrant a study if just to see what you'd expect people to be dancing to!
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