Friday, June 4, 2010

Baroque Dance - Passacaille from Armide (L'Abbé, Lully)

SO beautiful. I love baroque dance, and it REALLY helps you understand and "get inside" the music. We tried doing this in one of my baroque performance practice classes in grad school, the results were, unfortunately, much less graceful than this!!

It was really an eye opening experience and I don't know if I will ever play this genre of music without trying to picture how someone might dance to it!

I think the oboist should definitely have her own lady outfit though! I realize that "back then" it would have pretty much definitely been a male player but still! A fancy dress would be good! :)

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