Wedding Music

A suite of wedding dances

Full Title Wedding Divertissement, TWV11:21 by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 — 1767)

Notes Seven Dances, comprising a baroque dance suite:

• Sarabande
• Menuet
• Rigaudon
• Gigue
• Loure
• Bourrée
• Passepied

The Wedding Divertissement by Telemann: ‘Musicalisch Choréographisches Hochzeit-Divertissement entwortfen von G.P.T. ’ The print contains the words of a wedding cantata, but only the 7 dances have survived. The dances may have been sung and played, as the words more or less fit the music.

Duration to follow

Performers required

• Solo instrument accompanied by Organ or Piano
• Organ alone (the music could be arranged for organ)
• Piano alone (the music could be arranged for piano) (originally set for a solo instrument (flute, oboe, or violin etc) and keyboard).

Source of printed music Published by Schott ED 10349

Some of the movements are available on YouTube played on a solo mandolin (!), such as this Bourrée: -