Yo-Yo Ma - Bach, Cello Suites. Hendel -Water Music. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749 original version) Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel's Fireworks Music, performed at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND'S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq. A hand-coloured etching. The performing musicians were in a specially constructed building that had been designed by Servandoni, a theatre designer.
The music provided a background for the royal fireworks that were designed by Thomas Desguliers,[1] son of the cleric and scientist John Theophilus Desaguliers. However, the display was not as successful as the music itself: the enormous wooden building caught fire after the collapse of a bas relief of George II. Music and instrumentation[edit] Music for the Royal Fireworks opens with a French overture and includes a bourrée and two minuets.
The work is in five movements: Ouverture: Adagio, Allegro, Lentement, AllegroBourréeLa Paix: Largo alla sicilianaLa Réjouissance: AllegroMenuets I and II Recordings[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Great Britain. Suite (music) Estienne du Tertre published suyttes de bransles in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances. The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The Banchetto musicale by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances.
The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, Sandley's Suite, was published in 1663.[3][4] The "classical" suite consisted of allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue, in that order, and developed during the 17th century in France, the gigue appearing later than the others. Many later suites included other movements placed between sarabande and gigue. These optional movements were known as galanteries: common examples are the minuet, gavotte, passepied, and bourrée.
The Suite de danses would contain the following sections: