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Keywords
Praetorius, Michael, --1571-1621--Terpsichore; Terpsichore (Praetorius, Michael)
Abstract
The Terpsichore musarum was compiled and published in 1612 by Michael Praetorius, a man of many accomplishments. The secular pieces in Terpsichore represent a major departure from his otherwise religious musical output. Roughly a third of the tunes in the collection are borrowed from contemporary lute tablatures, while the remainder are French dance melodies given to Praetorius by the dance master Antoine Emeraude and the violinist Francisque Caroubel. The collection consists of 312 dances including branles, courantes , ballets, voltes, and passamezzos. Praetorius published it in 1612 in a set of five part books . A modern edition, prepared by Guenter Oberst and printed in 1929 as Volume 15 of Praetorius's Gesamtausgabe Werke, was examined in this study. The results of that study, coupled with additional readings in secondary sources, reveal that the dances in Terpsichore represent the different styles which were popular in the late Renaissance and early Baroque. These dances are similar in factors such as range, mode, and voicing; they vary in meter, tempo, and rhythm. Taken as a whole, the anthology provides a substantial collection of the many varieties of dances which were in favor at the time of its publication.
Year of Submission
1989
Degree Name
Master of Music
Department
School of Music
First Advisor
John Lindberg
Second Advisor
Ronald Ross
Third Advisor
Marilou Kratzenstein
Date Original
1989
Object Description
1 PDF file (83 leaves)
Copyright
©1989 Judith G. Freshwater
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Freshwater, Judith G., "The Terpsichore Collection of Michael Praetorius" (1989). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2707.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2707
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