Talk:Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

copyvio?
The beginning of the article is the same as Ludwin Music's page. But did we copy them or vice versa? Matchups 18:18, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The Wayback Machine would suggest that ludwinmusic plagiarized the Wikipedia article. Their earliest article chronologically follows the addition on wikipedia of that text, yet does not contain the text. njaard (talk) 02:08, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Classification
I do not think this title should be considered a chaconne/passacaille. I consider passacaille a synonym of chaconne and prefer to say just chaconne. I analyzed a lot of them and never found a chaconne made of just one looping bar. This is actual program music, obviously imitating the sound of bells--comparable to Biber's imitating animals, battles etc. The chaconne is a Spanish kind of a dance with a very old tradition, with either four or eight bars. I consider La Folia a chaconne, which indeed has been danced during the baroque period and also long before baroque (I dance it too and I dance it like any chaconne). This Sonnerie sounds like an experiment, just making music over something inspired by bells--seemingly improvised by Marais and fellow musicians. We also know looping bass phrases from fugues, so it's not always a chaconne. I could dance over this Sonnerie, but wouldn't do it, because dancing over bells of a monatic church would be kind of weird. You might do it in 2016, but in 1716 you would look like the ultimate jerk. Which is my after all strongest argument against this Sonnerie being a chaconne: It makes sense to imitate church bells with musical instruments, but dancing and clapping with castanets doesn't seem to belong here.--Demoiselle Clarisse (talk) 15:15, 16 February 2016 (UTC)