Mary Berry in St.-Rémy-de-Provence - 2 January, 1785
from Diary of Mary Berry, 2 January 1785, pages 143–144:
At St. Rémy all the young people of the town were dancing in the faubourg. For the first time in my life I saw small bourgeois servants and peasants dancing with natural grace and signs of real gaiety: they wanted no dancing-master to show them the figures. For half an hour they danced the figure of a quarrée, and were never wrong in a single step, and always with a grace and gaiety that one sometimes vainly looks for in our dress-ball rooms. Their band was a tambourine and a fife; they danced quarrées, a Pérégordine, and a dance they … more >>
Mary Berry, Diary of Mary Berry, 2 January 1785. In Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852, volume 1 (London, 1865), p. 143–144. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1541520924800 accessed: 31 December, 2024
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hide composers| music to accompany French peasant dancing | performed by Servants and peasants |
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| Date/Time | 2 January, 1785 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |