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- one of the best known of Bach's pupils, Johann Philipp Kirnberger published this 1777 collection of dances with the aim of developing a student's sense of time and rhythm
- Kirnberger mixes pieces in the traditional French dance style - Passepied, Gavotte, Gigue, Musette, etc. - with more up-to-date pre-Classical forms, including a Polonaise and Cossack
Contents
- Bourrée: No. 3
- Canarie: No. 15
- Chaconne: No. 4
- Corrente: No. 19
- Cossack: No. 26
- Courante: No. 1
- Entrée
- Fanfare: Rondeau: No. 7
- Forlane: No. 6
- Gavotte: No. 9
- Gigue: No. 10
- L’Arlequin: No. 25
- Les Carillons, No. 20 from Recueil d’airs de danse caractéristiques
- Les Complimenteurs: No. 23
- Les Forgerons: No. 24
- Les Tambourins: No. 21
- Loure: No. 11
- Marche: No. 18
- Menuet Allemande: No. 22
- Menuetto: No. 2
- Musette: No. 12
- Passepied in D
- Polonaise: No. 14
- Rigaudon: No. 13
- Sarabande: No. 5
- Souabe: No. 16
- Souabe: No. 17
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