Traditional Festive Dances

Traditional Festive Dances (for Piano Duet). By Various. Arranged by Fritz Emonts. Piano. Schott. 31 pages. Schott Music #ED5176. Published by Schott Music (HL.49005495).

This is intended as a continuation of the book Let's Play Duets (49005155). Progress continues without exceeding the range of the lower grades. The lively melodies of the seventeenth-century European dance-forms offered a treasure trove of material. The parts are written in such a way as to avoid the dissatisfaction a pupil generally feels when practicing either the primo or secondo part in isolation. Both parts are of the same difficulty and the pupil may play either the upper or lower part.

Contents: Old French Dance (anon) • Gillarde (Attaignant) • Passepieds (Campra) • Rigaudon (Desmarets) • Passepied en Rondeau (Destouches) • Dance, Alman and Corranto (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) • Bassa imperiale e Saltarello (Hoff) • Pavanne pour Madame la Douphine (Lully) • Bourrée (Lully) • Musette (Montéclair) • Allegro (Playford) • Die Post (Susato) • Courante (Voelckel) • Two Dances (Widmann).