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About Bourrée
Bourrée is a music genre that emerged in France. It is usually classed as a form of Baroque dance.
From Wikipedia
The bourrée is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm. However, it is somewhat quicker, and its phrase starts with a quarter-bar anacrusis or "pick-up", whereas a gavotte has a half-bar anacrusis.
In the Baroque era, after the Academie de Dance was established by Louis XIV in 1661, the French court adapted the bourrée, like many such dances, for the purposes of concert dance. In this way it gave its name to a ballet step characteristic of the dance, a rapid movement of the feet while en pointe or demi-pointe, and so to the sequence of steps called pas de bourrée.
Genre family tree
Parent genres (↑) and subgenres (↓) of Bourrée.
- ↑ Baroque dance
Frequently asked questions
What is Bourrée?
Bourrée is a music genre that emerged in France. It is usually classed as a form of Baroque dance.
Where and when did Bourrée originate?
Bourrée originated in France.
Sources & credits
- Wikidata Q866816 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Bourrée – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Chopin - Bourrée No. 1 in G major, B. 160b1 (Aya Higuchi) by Frédéric Chopin – Public domain
- Chopin - Bourrée No. 2 in A major, B. 160b2 (Aya Higuchi) by Frédéric Chopin – Public domain
- PDP-CH - The Hallé - Malcolm Sargent - Water Music, HWV 348-350 - Suite in F major, HWV… – Public domain