Baroque dances

Question 1

What are the 4 common movements in baroque dances?

Answer 1

Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue

Question 2

What baroque dances can be added?

Answer 2

Minuet, Gavotte and Prelude

Question 3

What defines and allemande dance?

Answer 3

• It usually has a moderately fast tempo
• It is serious but not too heavy
• It has a German origin
• It usually starts with an anacrusis and has a lot of semiquavers

Question 4

What defines a Courante dance?

Answer 4

• It is usually in binary form
• Is homophonic
• Has a moderate to fast tempo
• It often uses hemiolas at cadence points
• It usually in 3/4
• It has a solemn stately character
  Has French origin

Question 5

What defines a Sarabande?

Answer 5

• The Sarabande has a solemn and grave expressive mood
• It has a Spanish origin
• It is in binary form
• It is homophonic and is in simple triple metre
• It is highly ornamented and emphasises the second beat

Question 6

What defines a Gigue?

Answer 6

• This dance is lively, joyful and spirited
• It is of British Isles origin
• This dance is in binary form
• It usually in compound time and has a lot of imitative passages

Question 7

What defines a Minuet?

Answer 7

• A Minuet is of French origin
• It is elegant, graceful and it flows smoothly
• It is in simple triple-time
• It is at a moderate tempo
• It is homophonic
• It usually occurs in between the Courante and Sarabande

Question 8

What is the structure of a minuet when it uses compound binary form?

Answer 8

Minuet 1 (All repeats played)
Minuet 2 (All repeats played)
Minuet 1 (no repeats)

Question 9

What defines a Gavotte?

Answer 9

• The Gavotte is of French origin
• It has a moderate to moderately fast tempo
• It is lively but elegant
• It is in simple duple or simple quadruple time
  It has a homophonic texture and has a half bar anacrusis
• The Gavotte is placed between the Sarabande and Gigue
• The Gavotte can also be in compound binary form