Michael Praetorius - Dances from Terpsichore

 

 

      Voices of Music selected six dances and grouped them together to form a suite:

 Ballet, 0:00​  Courante, 1:46​  Spagnoletta, 3:09​ 

 Volte, 5:12​  Pavane 6:08​  Bourée. 7:40​

      Michael Praetorius comes here again. He wrote popular hymn settings, as well as large-scale compositions that borrowed elements of the polychoral Italian tradition. Praetorius was a tune collector, just like the musicologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who collected songs and dances from different countries; he planned eight volumes of these secular works, but he only finished one: his book of French instrumental dances Terpsichore. 

      Notes from the video in YouTube.