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Menuets et Contre-Dances

Composer: Montéclair; Michel Pignolet de (1667-1737)

Instrumentation: Treble recorder and keyboard

Author/editor/arranger: Robinson

Publisher: Peacock Press

Format: Sheet music

Product code: PAR248

Tags: Keyboard, treble recorder

£7.75

Best known nowadays for his flute music, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737) was a respected teacher who wrote four treatises about music. In this edition, the editor Andrew Robinson takes a selection of menuets and contre-dances from his surviving books.

The term contre-dance or contradance is believed to be a corruption of the English country dance. They became more popular throughout the 18th century, perhaps as a reaction to the refined dancing styles of the court, perhaps just because they were fun!

The menuets don’t specify any instrumentation but the contre-dances are for violins, flutes or oboes, so - until this edition - recorder players would have had to transpose them as necessary.

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