TimEven--there is a gorgeous one from a Polish movie! Just get on Ytube and type in "Pan Tadeusz Polonez." Perhaps youcan dounload it? I am trying to buy a disc with it, but have had no luck yet.
I'd noticed it was late 19th-century dress (I'm a costume historian!), but I don't know enough about Victorian music to have identified that the tunes are from the middle of the nineteenth century not the end. How did you know? I'm trying to put together a collection of late 19th-century dance music for an event, and any information you could throw me about it would be fantastic! Thanks. :)
I know the tunes and scoring style. I am a music historian :-) This is a more 1850s style of music. I have a late 19thc period wind band and could certainly help with you dance stuff. As you get to the later 19thc, the waltz begins to take over. The quickstep, schottische, and others are still there, but waltzes are favored. Look for 1880s dance manuals. They should have good info on the order of dances. I have a gazillion arrangements to fill those orders!
Also you get more orchestras playing for dances in the later 19th century. The height of band dance gigs is 1850s-60s. Of course they still played dances for smaller towns.
This is definitely your area of expertise, then! :) What do you mean by scoring style? I had caught wind (pun intended) of the changes in the popularity of different dances throughout the Victorian era, and I could indeed get my hands on a few 1880s dance manuals, so that would certainly help with the order of dances for the event. We're a small dance club, and we wanted to set a dance in 1895 because that's when the church hall in which we rehearse was opened. We're all pretty geeky and want to do it as accurately as we can from a historical point of view! Can you name tunes that would have been played for dances around about that time? What instruments would have played? Thanks very much!
What you are hearing is an all-brass band featuring Eb Cornets on the melody with the other parts in mostly accompaniment roles. That's a very Civil War sound. Also very 1840s Italian opera, which was popular. The late 19thc had a much richer arranging style and the bands tended to have woodwinds with the melody moving to the Bb cornet. For 1895, you can expect a rather ample woodwind section with some larger bands even with saxophones and double reeds. Trouble is that there are not a lot of recordings of this music (yet, we are trying to address that). You might best be served using orchestral recordings by the likes of Gung'l, Strauss, and Labitzky, who were all still popular in the late 19thc with orchestras. Check out the Stanford videos I see that come up with this search.
They still dance this in East Texas for Weddings! Especially in Galveston and Houston
Chopin has really nice polonaise songs.
TimEven--there is a gorgeous one from a Polish movie! Just get on Ytube and type in "Pan Tadeusz Polonez." Perhaps youcan dounload it? I am trying to buy a disc with it, but have had no luck yet.
Who choreographed this?
This is obviously nineteenth-century music, but I don't recognize it.
What is it, and who wrote it.
Ah, but their version is much more lively and more in a line, never three people walking
Emeraldx--Yes, but you can't dance to them. The rhythms are too free and too irregular, too dreamy. You need a steady beat to dance to.
Late 19thc dress, but mid 19thc music. A bit of a mismatch here.
I'd noticed it was late 19th-century dress (I'm a costume historian!), but I don't know enough about Victorian music to have identified that the tunes are from the middle of the nineteenth century not the end. How did you know? I'm trying to put together a collection of late 19th-century dance music for an event, and any information you could throw me about it would be fantastic! Thanks. :)
I know the tunes and scoring style. I am a music historian :-) This is a more 1850s style of music. I have a late 19thc period wind band and could certainly help with you dance stuff. As you get to the later 19thc, the waltz begins to take over. The quickstep, schottische, and others are still there, but waltzes are favored. Look for 1880s dance manuals. They should have good info on the order of dances. I have a gazillion arrangements to fill those orders!
Also you get more orchestras playing for dances in the later 19th century. The height of band dance gigs is 1850s-60s. Of course they still played dances for smaller towns.
This is definitely your area of expertise, then! :) What do you mean by scoring style? I had caught wind (pun intended) of the changes in the popularity of different dances throughout the Victorian era, and I could indeed get my hands on a few 1880s dance manuals, so that would certainly help with the order of dances for the event.
We're a small dance club, and we wanted to set a dance in 1895 because that's when the church hall in which we rehearse was opened. We're all pretty geeky and want to do it as accurately as we can from a historical point of view! Can you name tunes that would have been played for dances around about that time? What instruments would have played?
Thanks very much!
What you are hearing is an all-brass band featuring Eb Cornets on the melody with the other parts in mostly accompaniment roles. That's a very Civil War sound. Also very 1840s Italian opera, which was popular. The late 19thc had a much richer arranging style and the bands tended to have woodwinds with the melody moving to the Bb cornet. For 1895, you can expect a rather ample woodwind section with some larger bands even with saxophones and double reeds. Trouble is that there are not a lot of recordings of this music (yet, we are trying to address that). You might best be served using orchestral recordings by the likes of Gung'l, Strauss, and Labitzky, who were all still popular in the late 19thc with orchestras. Check out the Stanford videos I see that come up with this search.