In early 18th-century Germany, galanterien referred to any fashionable piece and later came to connote out-of-dateness. The narrower use described above seems to originate with a reading of Johann Sebastian Bach's title page description of his keyboard Partitas, "Clavier Übung, bestehend in Präludien, Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden, Giguen, Menuetten, und anderen Galanterien", in which it appears to be paired with minuets, whose place is often taken in Bach's suites by gavottes, bourrées, passepieds or other movements.[3][4]
^"Galanterie" in the encyclopedic Oxford Composer Companions J. S. Bach, ed. Malcolm Boyd, p. 186 says this is "generally assumed", continuing "Bach's wording, however…"
galanterie, term, galanteries, sometimes, used, movements, baroque, dance, suite, whose, inclusion, variable, unlike, fixed, core, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue, these, pieces, usually, follow, sarabande, title, page, bach, clavier, übung, early, 18th,. The term galanteries is sometimes used for movements in the Baroque dance suite whose inclusion is variable unlike the fixed core of allemande courante sarabande and gigue 1 These pieces usually follow the sarabande 2 Title page of Bach s Clavier Ubung IIn early 18th century Germany galanterien referred to any fashionable piece and later came to connote out of dateness The narrower use described above seems to originate with a reading of Johann Sebastian Bach s title page description of his keyboard Partitas Clavier Ubung bestehend in Praludien Allemanden Couranten Sarabanden Giguen Menuetten und anderen Galanterien in which it appears to be paired with minuets whose place is often taken in Bach s suites by gavottes bourrees passepieds or other movements 3 4 Examples of common galanteries include Air Bourree Gavotte Minuet Chaconne Passacaglia Passepied 5 See also editGalant Galante music Sonatas and partitas for solo violin Bach References edit Don Michael Randal compiler Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music 1978 The Baroque Suite at http www jacaranda music com Archived from the original on 2019 06 06 Retrieved 2008 10 14 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a External link in code class cs1 code title code help Sadie Stanley Tyrrell John eds 2001 Galanterie Ger The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd ed London Macmillan Publishers ISBN 978 1 56159 239 5 The unsigned article looks askance at the specialized usage without citing examples whereas in reality the word seems to be used as a modish slightly deprecatory reference to all the pieces in the collection Galanterie in the encyclopedic Oxford Composer Companions J S Bach ed Malcolm Boyd p 186 says this is generally assumed continuing Bach s wording however The baroque Suite Basic Information musicteachers co uk Microsoft Word document failed verification nbsp This article related to classical music is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Galanterie amp oldid 1125513131, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
