Bergamaska

Bergamaska-dance 16-17 centuries. in 2/4 or 4/4, took place from the Italian city of Bergamo. Shakespeare mentions to bergamaska in comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, so that the dance was known in England as early as in 1916. In manuscripts of the time bergamaska has a melody, which is often a basso ostinato (ie constantly recurring ABC), with variations. Melody bergamaska recalled later German folk song Kraut und Rüben that was used D. Buxtehude and then introduced I. S. Bach in his Goldberg- variations. Today, not associated with the old bergamaska, performed in a lively pace, at 6 / 8 and a reminder of tarantella, used Alfredo Piatti in Bergamaske for music.