Bergamask

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Bergamesca ('The Buffens'), Straloch MS., c. 1600[1]  Play (help·info).
Bergamesca variant, MS. Lute Book, c. 1600[1]  Play (help·info).

Bergamask, bergomask, bergamesca,[1] or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy), is dance and associated melody and chord progression. It was considered a clumsy rustic dance (cf. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 360) copied from the natives of Bergamo, reputed to be very awkward in their manners.[2]

The dance is associated with clowns or buffoonery, as is the area of Bergamo, it having lent its dialect to the Italian buffoons.[1]

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Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (1916). The Musical Times, Volume 57, p.491.
  2. ↑ Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press 
  3. ↑ Apel, Willi (1969). Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.91. ISBN 978-0-674-37501-7.
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