[SCA-Dance] SCAd-Dance Delving into the Trihory

[Mikuláš]

Although that's a tempting theory, I always had a feeling that Triory
is in seven beats, not in eight, as all the breton gavottes.
Any thoughts on that?

Mikuláš

On 13 February 2013 18:09, harpeur <harpolekare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jean-Michel Guilcher compared the Trihory with a lot of Breton folk dances and came to the conclusion that it is very closely related to the Dañs tro".
>
> Reference:
> Jean-Michel Guilcher (1963): La tradition populaire de danse en Basse-Bretagne, Paris, École pratique des Hautes Études [latest edition: Spézet, Coop Breiz, 2007], page 291 f.
>
> Unfortunately, the original Breton name "Dañs tro" has been largely replaced during 20th century by the French name "gavotte" which was subsequently bretonised into "gavotenn".
> Don't confuse it with the renaissance gavotte in Arbeau which is a different dance.
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%C3%B1s_tro
>
>
> Guilcher's theory goes as follows:
> The Trihori de Bretagne has three movements with heel in the air (hausse talon) with R-L-R on beats 6-and-7:
>
> 1 2 3 4  5  6&7 8
> L R L R L+R RLR__
>
> the Breton "Dañs tro" collected in Calanhel has three movements with heel in the air on beats 5-and-6:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5&6 7 8
> L R L R LRL R__
>
> the Breton "Dañs tro" collected in Maël-Carhaix has three movements with heel in the air on beats 4-and-5:
>
> 1 2 3 4&5 6 7 8
> L R L RLR L R__
>
> the Breton "Dañs tro" collected at Quimper has three movements with heel in the air on beats 3-and-4:
>
> 1 2 3et4 5 6 7 8
> L R LRL  R L R__
> and you will find this same step sequence in the "Dañs tro" from the mountains, which has conquered all festoù-noz (Breton folk dance nights) by the name "gavotte de montagne" during the 20th century and is nowadays known even outside Brittany.
>
> J.
>
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