The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Contredanse form · 1651–1850

Quadrille takes contredanse’s published-figure assembly job and recodes the longways set as a square of four couples with named figures.

Influence

Quadrille

form · 1760–1900

Also called square set

Late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century square-set ballroom dance in named figures (été, poule, pastourelle, finale; later Lancers). It hears Contredanse for the published-figure assembly job recoded as a square of four couples. Empty Given is historically checked: the set stays a ballroom type rather than a named parent of later social dance. Cotillion leftover as a sibling set name. Square dance leftover as a later American recoding. Galop leftover as a figure, not a child. Lancers leftover as a named set on this node. Do not duplicate contredanse new orleans jazz.

Listen

  1. Quadrille (five figures) French assembly tradition (late 18th century)
  2. Lancers nineteenth-century ballroom (19th century) YouTube
  3. Caledonians British/American ballroom (19th century)
  4. Parisian quadrille French ball tradition (19th century) YouTube
  5. Square-set quadrille Atlantic ballroom tradition (19th century)

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Contredanse → Quadrille

form and structurefunction and contextmeter and groovestrength: highscholarly consensus1760–1820dancenotationpatronage

Mechanism

Quadrille takes contredanse’s published-figure assembly job and recodes the longways set as a square of four couples with named figures. Strength high. Cotillion leftover as a sibling set name. contredanse habanera is the Atlantic contradanza hop, not this Paris square.

Evidence

Paris assembly books; Lancers as a later named set; Grove on quadrille as a contredanse recoding.

Debate

Whether quadrille simply is contredanse. Contredanse is the longways/country-dance job; quadrille is the named square-set child.

Mediators

community: Paris assembly dancing-masters