Video

Entrée grave from Lully’s “Persée”

Video recording of the dance

Mojca Gal

  • Serie
    Extras BBHM
  • Type
    Video
  • Published:
    23.11.2023
Abstract

Video recording of Louis-Guillaume Pécour’s choreography of 1710 for the “Entrée des divinités infernales” from Lully’s opera “Persée”. Performed by Mojca Gal. This recording is related to the chapter 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).

Keywords

loure; entrée grave; 18th-century ballet; Guillaume Pécour; Choreography

Quelle

Forschungsportal Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

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Credits

Louis-Guillaume Pécour: Entrée grave from Lully’s “Persée”

Source: Michel Gaudrau (ed.), Nouveau recüeil de dance de bal et celle de ballet […] de la composition de Mr Pecour tant pour hommes que pour femmes qui ont été dancées a l’Opera […], Paris: Gaudrau 1715, 91–94.

Performed by Mojca Gal (dance, violin) and Bruno Hurtado Gosalvez (viol)
Reconstruction of the dance: Edmund Fairfax.
Sound ingeneering: Leonardo Bortolotto

Recorded in Basel, 2022

© Mojca Gal

The video was made available to us with the kind permission of Mojca Gal.

This video is related to thie 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.