Dances from Terpsichore for soprano recorder and keyboard – Michael Praetorius
Praetorius’ Terpshichore of 1612 is the largest collection of its kind.
Here we have a varied selection of dances arranged for recorder and keyboard.
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was primarily a composer of Lutheran church music, but in 1612 he published his Terpsichore, a huge collection of dance pieces, mostly French. It appears that he got most of the tunes from a French dancing-master called Anthoine Emeraud, who was working at Braunschweig (Brunswick) not far from Praetorius’ home town of Wolfenbüttel.
- Bransle de la Royne
- Pavane de Spaigne
- La Bouree (XXXII)
- Spagnoletta
- La Canarie (XXXI)
- Bransle simple 1: [La, la, la, je ne l’ose dire]
- Bransle simple 2
- Bransle Gay 1
- Bransle Gay 2
- Bransle de Villages 4
- Bransle de Villages 5
- Courante
- Courante
- Courante
- Courante
- Courante
- Courante
- Courante: La Rosette
- Courante: So ben mi ch’ha bon tempo
- Ballet
- Ballet des Baccanales
- Ballet des feus
- Ballet des Matelotz
- Reprinse
- Passameze II
- Galliarde
