Understanding Form: The Gavotte (and Musette)
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In this video I discuss the musical characteristics of the Baroque dance known as the Gavotte.
A special thanks as always to musopen.org and imslp.org for offering free public domain sheet music and recordings online.
Surprised to be the only Good Omens fan here in the comments. Love the video!
hello fellow fan :]
I thought GO made it up.
I have always thought of the Gavotte as essentially a "Minuet in 4" because there are many similarities between the two dances. Even the use of an upbeat is a similarity although not all Minuets employ it and those that do have a 1/4 upbeat most often.
Yeeees, another quality video from you!
These videos are just great! Please continue the series with some of the remaining famous dances of the suite! I would love to watch a video for the Bourrée, Passepied… or maybe you could do a longer video with several of these. Congratulations for your work!
Great composition
Love this, it helps a lot to unterstand the differences between all the baroque dances better. Could you do Gigue please?
This is a great video!
Great educational videos!
amazing
Great content, thanks so much! 👍
thanks for the effort
Very instructuve and useful, congratulations! I will use it in my classes and recommend to suscribe to your chanell. greetings from Argentina!
Thank you
It's interesting that you talk about the word meaning 'stuffed', as another dance form in the Baroque era, the bourrée, is a word that means stuffed, and can also mean drunk interestingly enough.
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I'm a bit confused about the Gavotte shifting its stress to the third beat. If every phrase starts with the 3rd beat, then as a listener (or dancer even) how can you even tell that you had two pick-up notes? Unless you see the music you are trying to play, how can you distinguish whether the piece starts on the 1st beat vs the 3rd beat? I'm not trying to pick bones I'm genuinely confused; and I would be very interested to know the origin of how this came to be. Thanks!
The dance actually begins on the downbeat. There are 2 crotchets of music before the dance begins. The mismatch in metric stress between the music and the dance is one of the defining features of the form and unfortunately not mentioned in the video. Usually when playing a gavotte with dancers, the 3 isn’t really accented and the 1 is. The phrases still start and finish on the half bars however.
Something I'm struggling to grasp is the fauxbourdon from Medieval and Renaissance music. There's not a whole lot of info about it online- any chance of addressing it in a future video?
Fauxbourdon is the doubling of a melody a fourth below - check out the Grove dictionary if you’d like a relatively easy to understand introduction :)
is the album going to be available on spotify? :)
I’m still thinking about it. Streaming services are generally not very profitable for smaller artists. It will however be on Amazon by summer.
@@MusicaUniversalis ohhh I didn't know that, but since it's already on Apple Music I thought it'd be the same thing to have on Spotify, isn't it the same thing?
My question is about the binary form. At present I am writing (or Trying to) a baroque suite in A minor for classical guitar. So, Can I start the Gavotte in A minor for the 1st section and then C major for the 2nd section?
BTW thanks for these very interesting videos :-)
I don’t see why you couldn’t do that.
@@caterscarrots3407 Yes I have done that, it's working out fine 🙂
Cockney Buddhist Glad to hear that. I myself am working on a Baroque Suite.
@@caterscarrots3407 For a chamber orchestra or single instrument? Are you going to upload it when finished? I would love to hear it. I have nearly finished the first drafts of each movement but they will need looking at again. I will upload when finished.
I have fairly recently uploaded a piece for Classical guitar and strings called 'Dowland in the Springtime' if you go to my channel you can hear it 😀
Cockney Buddhist Single instrument. I’m writing it for piano. I mean, I probably should upload it, it’s kind of just a matter of "Did I remember to upload it to TH-cam?" which for a lot of my pieces, is no. I’m not that close to finishing any of the movements yet, but I just realized that I have a few unreachable intervals in my Allemande, so I will have to adjust a few things. Thankfully, most of the wide intervals(by which I mean 10ths and wider, I just can’t reach a 10th with either hand, so I tend to think of 10ths as being wide and octaves as being comfortable) on the upper staff are close enough that my left hand would be able to reach the bottom note of that wide interval, but there are those few that aren’t and will need to be adjusted.
Gavotte
You say that Gavottes shouldn’t have a hopping characteristic and then you say that the shifting of the stress gives a hopping characteristic. I would have to disagree with not having a hopping characteristic. I have seen plenty of gavottes have a hopping characteristic in many ways, octave leaps, staccato etc. not just the movement of the stress. And then at the end, you do say that it has a hopping characteristic. Was it an error in the beginning of the video then?
Listen carefully, I say it “should not unlike the Courante have a hopping characteristic”, as in the Gavotte shares the Courante’s hopping characteristic. “Not unlike” means “similar to”.
@@MusicaUniversalis See, I heard that as "should not, unlike the Courante, have a hopping characteristic" When I hear "not unlike" it's typically with a pause and an emphasis on not, so that's how I heard it in the video and thus I thought it was an error in the video.
I think maybe there are different kinds of 'hop'. The emphasis can be on the landing or on the spring itself or on the spring as a preparation for the next step. It helped me to think about the difference between the steps. Here we see what would be an Assemblé in ballet. In the Courante it has more of an upbeat character.
I believe gavottes are still danced to in Brittany eg th-cam.com/video/7K93xKvkAtI/w-d-xo.html
They are and are even have a regional anomaly of being in 5/8 time sometimes
@@MusicaUniversalis oh interesting, I imagine that could be quite difficult to dance to
Bourse dance
I wouldn't be surprised if the 'boorish'/'forcefeeding' etymology was imposed by Belle from Beauty & the Beast.
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Gah vote? Huh?
I prefer the French and German pronunciation.