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27: 600: 454:. With his left hand the leader holds the hand of his partner, in his right he waves a flag, handkerchief, or ribbon, which serves as a signal for his followers. As the Faraudole proceeds through the streets of the town the string of dancers is constantly recruited by fresh additions. The leader (to quote the poet Mistral) 'makes it come and go, turn backwards and forwards ... sometimes he forms it into a ring, sometimes winds it in a spiral, then he breaks off from his followers and dances in front, then he joins on again, and makes it pass rapidly under the uplifted arms of the last couple.'" 264: 105: 1035: 758:, which have a similar endosymbiotic relationship with mitochondria, as mitochondria have with eukaryotic cells. Over the course of the novel, characters physically journey inside a mitochondrion and encounter the farandolae as sentient creatures that do circular "dances" around their "trees of origin" that drain the elder fara of energy. 590:
As the drummer is notable, he has put on his most elegant costume, wears a wide-brimmed felt hat, and under his velvet jacket appears his embroidered waistcoat on his white shirt. Nicknamed "Guillaume", by tradition, it is he who leads the farandole with his tambourine and his galoubet. This scene is
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Carthusian, the sergeant, the doctor, the wife, the usurer, and the poor. The number of characters and the composition of the dance depends on the place of creation. Death, most often represented with a musical instrument, draws everyone into the dance, not looking at rank, wealth, gender, or age.
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Current musical accompaniment is always performed by one or more drummers. The dancers join hands to form a wandering open chain and mark each beat with jumps. The leader guides the chain by drawing a snake shape. Its role is to articulate the farandole, dance of agrarian rites, in its two main
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The farandole is considered as the oldest of the dances as well as the most characteristic and the most representative of Provence. Its name is attested only from the 18th century, however, it has been represented since prehistoric times by rock engravings then during Antiquity on ceramics or
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In this farandole, skeletons and living people alternate, arranged in a descending hierarchical order: the pope, the emperor, the cardinal, the king, the patriarch, the constable, the archbishop, the knight, the bishop, the squire, the abbot, the bailiff, the astrologer, the bourgeois, the
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Folklorists of the early 20th century (e.g. Alford 1932) interpreted most folk dances as being very ancient, and postulated even for the farandole an ancestry traceable to ancient Greece, remaining more or less unchanged "during its two or three thousands years of life".
370:(as being derived from Occitan) is in 1776. Its earliest appearance in English is even younger, 1876. Consequently, the medieval dance researcher Robert Mullally concludes that there is no evidence that the modern folk farandole resembles any kind of medieval dance. 434:"The Farandole consists of a long string of young men and women, sometimes as many as a hundred in number, holding one another by the hands, or by ribbons or handkerchiefs. The leader is always a bachelor, and he is preceded by one or more musicians playing the 568:
dancing the farandole are one of the classics of the Provence crib. The dancers form a long line which moves by meandering. The twists and turns of this dance in the crèche must represent a labyrinth. The dancers are either dressed in traditional
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and other associations who attempt to recreate dances of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the farandole is sometimes danced due to its assumed medieval origin (but see the historical concerns above). Examples can be found on YouTube.
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The dancers and the drummer wear an almost identical costume made up of white pants tightened by a taiole, a typical belt from Provence made up of a strip of red woolen fabric, and a white shirt tied at the collar by a cord.
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Jean Baumel (1958): Les Danses populaires, les farandoles, les rondes, les jeux choréographiques et les ballets du Languedoc méditerranéen. Institut d'études occitanes, Paris.
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annually on July 29. In the latter the farandole is preceded by the huge effigy of a legendary monster—the Tarasque—borne by several men and attended by the gaily dressed
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The dance is very probably of Greek origin, and seems to be a direct descendant of the "Cranes' dance", the invention of which was acribed to
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themes: that of the spiral (also known as the snail or labyrinth) and that of the passage under the vault (known as the serpent).
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Robert Mullally (2011): The Carole. A Study of a Medieval Dance. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Burlington. page 35
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ballet (1890), the dames propose a farandole in the fourth scene of the second act. There is a farandole in
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frescoes. Today in Provence, it is danced to the tunes played by the drummers who accompany it with their
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The farandole has occasionally been used for less innocent purposes than that of a mere dance: in 1815
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The farandole is usually danced at all the great feasts in the towns of Provence, such as the feast of
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Many recent websites, older encyclopedias, and some music history books claim that the farandole is a
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Paul Robert, 2nd ed. rev. Alain Rey: Le Grand Robert de la langue francaise. Paris 1985, "Farandole"
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Violet Alford (1932): The Farandole. Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society 1: 18–33.
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Also in Provence, other dances related to the farandole were practiced on more free steps: the
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by the infuriated populace, who made use of their national dance to surround and butcher him.
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suite (1872). However, the dance is not suited for the purposes of the ballet. In
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time, with a strongly accentuated rhythm, moderate to fast tempo, and played by a
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features the farandole as the fourth and concluding movement of his second
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one of the major subjects of the Provençal crib, to which it is essential.
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performed another rock cover of Bizet's farandole, which was subsequently
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The farandole was first described in detail by the English folklorist
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clothing, with the different clothing nuances provided by the local
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Dances and traditional musics used in the county of Nice (France)
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Au fifre niçois – MTCN: Musique traditionnelle du comté de Nice
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in 1932. The following description is from the county of Nice:
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Jan Ling: Europas musikhistoria −1730. Esselte, Uppsala 1983
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No satisfactory derivation has been given of the name.
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Farandole (film)

Saint-Geniès-de-Comolas
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Provençal
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jig
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