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Dance Forms
- Part of a larger, tight-structural unit called the Suite
- Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue with other inserts
- Each had its own character, meter, tempo, and tone
- In binary (AB) or ternary (ABA)
Dance Forms
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- Intro
- It's Time to Dance
- Dance Works, Known as Suites
- Importance of Dance Suites
- Baroque Period was All About Organization
- Suite: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue
- Back to Bach
- Wrote Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
- Explored Counterpoint, Harmonic Movement, Rhythmic Motion, Form, Imitation, and Texture
- Suites are Short Practice Canvases
- Allemande
- Moderate Tempo
- Duple Meter
- Polyphonic Texture
- Prelude
- Starts on Anacrusis, or Upbeat
- Running Patterns
- Example of Allemande: Sonata in B Minor
- Courante
- Binary Form
- Triple Form
- Quick
- Homophonic Texture
- Hemiolas (3:2)
- Dotted Rhythms to Show Hopping Character of Dance
- Example of Courante: Sonata in B Minor
- Sarabande
- Slow Tempo
- Triple Meter
- Commences on Down Beat
- Originated from 16th Century Latin
- Fast Version for Spain, England, and Italy
- Slow Version for Germany and France
- Example of Sarabande: Sonata in B Minor
- Gigue
- The Ending
- Compound Duple or Triple Meter
- Very Quick
- Starts on 8th Note Upbeat
- Binary Form
- Triplets
- Wide Melodic Leaps
- Imitation
- Slower Harmonic Rhythm: How Quickly the Harmonies Change
- Example of Gigue: Sonata in B Minor
- Review





























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