François Campion - Branle
“…un pas du pied gauche à gauche (pied gauche largy), ou en avant ou en arrière, ou encore sur les côtés,(droite ou gauche,) selon le trajet recommandé par la danse…”
The author
François Campion (1680 - 1748) is generally regarded as the most important French Baroque guitarist after Robert de Visée.
He succeeds to Maltot as guitarist and theorbo player in the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music in 1703
Maltot teaches him “the octave rule”, mentioned later in his “Treatise of accompaniment” (1716).
The piece
A branle is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th to the present, danced by couples in either a line or a circle.
The term also refers to the music and the characteristic step of the dance.
My arrangement
Unlike the guitar arrangement, my version includes full chords for a better usage of the ‘thin’ voice of ukulele
Here my ukulele version:
Ukulele score&tablature could be downloaded clicking the link below:
