The Dance Challenge Week Three
Let’s dance!
In this community-driven challenge, we will be playing dance music. So, choose a piece from any time period, location, or culture that is set to a dance rhythm. Whether it be an Italian Saltarello, an Argentinian Tango, or something in between, let’s get our toes tapping and our fingers dancing across the guitar strings.
This challenge will last four weeks, until Saturday, June 7th. A new thread will be posted each week.
Week Two brought us more music from Tansman, J.S. Bach, Lauro and Aguado. In addition, we heard contributions from Vallet, Le Polonais, Bogdanovic, Chopin, and De Visee. Let's keep it going!
If there are any beginners looking for suggested pieces, please feel free to ask the community.
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This is the next installment of the De Visee suite. I have been away for a few days and also busy looking after our grandaughter so not had much chance to practice or to check out everyone else's videos until today. Here is the Courante (without repeats). It needs a bit more work and it's also a bit rushed but I'll repost later in the week (or next week)
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Derek Great job, Derek - especially considering your grand parent duties.
I have an 'International Anthology for guitar' by Alexander Bellows that I originally thought contained this suite but this Courante doesn't match any of the 3 Courantes in the anthology (all 3 are very similar this one but not the same). DeVisee's music is less complicated than Bach or even Rameau but has a simple elegance.
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Jack Stewart Hi Jack there is no guarantee that my performance is the same as what is written -my edition may match one of those that you have!
To paraphrase one of our comedy legends Eric Morecambe 'I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily at the right time'!
If you haven't seen the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn then this is what I mean -
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Jack Stewart Hi Jack. Just another thought. I have a feeling that these pieces weren't put together by De Visee as a suite. I think the original publication contained a number of suites and a number of pieces of which the ones in d minor have been grouped as a suite by later publishers. This may explain the differences. I may have got this wrong so happy to be contradicted by someone.
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This is the end of Week Three. Other than comments on the posts above, please put new posts in the Week Four thread.
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