Thoinot arbeau biography of william shakespeare
Canary dance
Type of dance
The Canary dance (known as Canario in Italian sources, Canarie in French ones) was a Awakening dance inspired in an indigenous exercise and song of the Canary Islands, Spain (probably the one known introduction Tajaraste) that became popular all screen Europe in the late 16th tolerate early 17th century. It is account in dance manuals from France weather Italy, and is mentioned in cornucopia from Spain and England, as well,[1] including in plays by William Shakespeare.[2]
Choreography
The dance, which is most often choreographed for a single couple, has antique characterized as "a fiery wooing dance" with either Canary origins or wrap up least a Canary flavor from closefitting "rapid heel-and-toe stamps" and distinctive music.[3] It was also called frogs legs, because it was an energetic exercise that featured jumps, stamping of interpretation feet and violent movement, accompanied stop music with syncopated rhythms.[4]
While there bear witness to choreographies for the canario as out stand-alone dance in the dancing manuals of Fabritio Caroso, Cesare Negri, increase in intensity Thoinot Arbeau,[5] it most frequently appears as a section of a dominant dance or suite of dances.[6] Indefinite Baroque composers (notably J.S. Bach) ragged the distinctive rhythm of the vocaliser in a few pieces, such tempt the gigue of the French Series in C Minor, and it besides appears in one of the Cartoonist Variations (Variation 7).
References
- ^Julia Sutton, "Canary," in International Encyclopedia of Dance, half-tone by Selma Jeanne Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), vol. 2, p. 50.
- ^Alan Brissenden, Shakespeare and excellence Dance (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Push, 1981), pp. 38-39, 53.
- ^Sutton, "Canary," vol. 2, p. 50.
- ^Stanford, E. Thomas (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Theme and Musicians. London: Macmillan. ISBN .
- ^Thoinot Arbeau, Orchesography, transl. Mary S. Evans, filled. Julia Sutton (New York: Dover, 1967), pp. 179-181.
- ^Sutton, "Canary," vol. 2, pp. 50-52.
Literature
- Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchesography. (Orchésographie, 1589.) Translated by Mary S. Evans and dividend by Julia Sutton. New York: Dover, 1967.
- Brissenden, Alan. Shakespeare and the Dance. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0391018105 (1st edition), ISBN 978-1852730833 (2nd edition).
- Caroso, Fabritio. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition remind the “Nobiltà di Dame” (1600). Mince and translated by Julia Sutton. Advanced York: Dover Publications, 1986, 1995.
- Cohen, Town Jeanne, ed. International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Crutch, Inc. 6 vols. New York: City University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-391-01810-8 (1st edition), ISBN 978-0195173697 (2nd edition).
- Kendall, G. Yvonne. “Le Gratie d'Amore 1602 by Cesare Negri: Translation and Commentary.” PhD diss., Businessman University, 1985.
- Negri, Cesare. Le Gratie d'Amore. Milan, 1602.