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Michael Praetorius, Ballet des Princesses et al. (Terpsichore cclxxvii - cclxxxi)

In addition to many sacred works, Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) published Terpsichore, a collection of 312 dances, mostly of French origin. The present video contains numbers CCLXXVII - CCLXXXI. On these recordings, I play the top three voices on recorders and the bottom voice on bass viola da gamba. The selections are as follows: 00:00 Ballet des Princesses (The Dance of the Princesses). 01:31 Ballet des Baccanales (The Dance of the Bacchanalian Revelers). "Bacchanalia" were festivals in honor of Bacchus, the Greek god of wine. "Bacchanals" were the devotees of Bacchus. 02:31 Ballet des Feus (The Dance of the Dead), also known as "danse macabre." The title expresses a late-medieval theme that emphasized human mortality and pictured the dead rising to lead the living in a dance to the grave. 03:33 Ballet des Matelotz (The Dance of the Sailors). In modern French, the plural of "matelot" ends in an "s" rather than a "z." The title may refer to a hornpipe dance, which some think originated on English sailing vessels in the 1500s, though others maintain that the association of the hornpipe dance with sailors is subsequent to Praetorius. 04:26 Ballet des Aveugles (The Dance of the Blind). The title may refer to Pierre Michaut's poem / prose allegory from 1465, entitled "La danse aux aveugles," in which the blind guides Fortune, Love, and Death lead humanity in a dance. Alas, there are absolutely no Renaissance paintings of blind people dancing. I was therefore constrained to use a painting illustrating the biblical phrase "the blind leading the blind."