Bergamask

For the regional language, see Bergamasque.
Bergamesca ('The Buffens'), Straloch MS., c. 1600[1]  Play .
Bergamesca variant, MS. Lute Book, c. 1600[1]  Play .

Bergamask, bergomask, bergamesca,[1] or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy), is a 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 (according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition) 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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Bergomask is the title of the second of the Two Pieces for Piano (1925) by John Ireland (1879–1972).

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Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 (1916). The Musical Times, Volume 57, p.491.
  2. ↑  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bergamask". Encyclopædia Britannica 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 772.
  3. ↑ Apel, Willi (1969). Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.91. ISBN 978-0-674-37501-7.


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