{"id":4495,"date":"2016-04-06T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2016-04-06T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T23:29:00","slug":"mattheson-on-the-allemande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4495","title":{"rendered":"Mattheson on the allemande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An allemande is a stately processional couple dance. The dances formed lines of couples, extended their hands, and moved forward and backward throughout the ballroom. It was a common stylised dance in baroque music. Johann Mattheson described it in 1739:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Now the allemande is a broken, serious, and well constructed harmony, which is the image of a content or satisfied spirit, which enjoys good order and calm.<\/div>\n<p>Siblin, Eric (2009) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Cello Suites<\/span>.\u00a0 Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, p. 59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An allemande is a stately processional couple dance. The dances formed lines of couples, extended their hands, and moved forward and backward throughout the ballroom. It was a common stylised dance in baroque music. Johann Mattheson described it in 1739: Now the allemande is a broken, serious, and well constructed harmony, which is the image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1056,70,1025],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style","tag-allemande","tag-baroque","tag-suite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}