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Chapter:

CHAPTER 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off

Source:

MUSIC IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

No less surprising is this symphony’s minuet, marked at an outlandish tempo (allegro molto) that turns it into another dance altogether: a Deutscher (or “Teitsch”), the “German dance” familiar to us from the ballroom scene in Don Giovanni, where it served to accompany the lubberly steps of that unlikeliest of couples, Leporello and Masetto. It comes (or at least begins) in Haydn replete with its traditional oom-pah-pah accompaniment. As danced in the Austrian countryside the Deutscher was known as the Walzer (from wälzen, “to roll”) after its characteristic whirling step. Within a generation this adapted peasant dance, known variously as valse or waltz, would be the main high-society ballroom dance throughout Europe and in all its cultural colonies.

Citation (MLA):

Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off." The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press. New York, USA. n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2023. <https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume2/actrade-9780195384826-div1-10014.xml>.

Citation (APA):

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off. In Oxford University Press, Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries. New York, USA. Retrieved 6 Dec. 2023, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume2/actrade-9780195384826-div1-10014.xml

Citation (Chicago):

Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off." In Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Oxford University Press. (New York, USA, n.d.). Retrieved 6 Dec. 2023, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume2/actrade-9780195384826-div1-10014.xml