Credits
“Aimable vainqueur”, musica antigua
Source: Bartolomé Ferriol y Boxeraus: “Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar”, Capua: Joseph Testore 1745, p. 28 [recte: p. 236].
Performed by Mojca Gal (violin) and Thys Grobelnik (harpsichord).
Recorded in Basel, 2021
© Mojca Gal
This video was made available to us with the kind permission of Mojca Gal.
About this recording
This is an adaptation of the French air Aimable vainqueur from André Campra’s opera Hésione (1700). Bartolomé Ferriol y Boxeraus provides only the upper part and uses it as an accompaniment to the ballroom dance.
Reference to the publication
This video is related to the article by Mojca Gal: “The Performance Practice of Dance Music in 18th-Century France. Case Study: The Entrée Grave”, in: Tanz und Musik. Perspektiven für die Historische Musikpraxis, Basel 2023, 281–297 (BBHM 42)
Abstract
This article presents a part of the process of working on the entrée grave (a theatrical dance in the serious style of the 18th-century ballet), which the author learned to perform both as a dancer and as a musician. The discussion mainly focuses on the performance practice of the music, investigating points of intersection and correlations between music and ballet on the basis of period sources, and ultimately questioning the modern performance practice of ballet music.