Gitter ground a dance

Polish translation: gitara na stalym basie i taniec (guitar over a ground bass and a dance)

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English term or phrase:	Gitter ground a dance
Polish translation:	gitara na stalym basie i taniec (guitar over a ground bass and a dance)
Entered by:	onionesque

01:26 Nov 19, 2009

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Art/Literary - Music / baroque opera libretto

English term or phrase: Gitter ground a dance

What does it mean? It appears in director's comments in the first English opera 'Dido and Aeneas' by a 17th century composer Henry Purcell. Dances create intervals between subsequent parts of the opera. I suppose it's just a name of a dance, but what kind of dance gitter ground might be? And what's gitter? Or maybe ground is a verb? To grind = to dance eroticly rotating your hips...

I am sooooo at sea...

The libretto reads:

BELINDA [Repeated by Chorus]
Thanks to these lovesome vales,
These desert hills and dales,
So fair the game, so rich the sport,
Diana's self might to these woods resort.

GITTER GROUND A DANCE

SECOND WOMAN
Oft she visits this lov'd mountain,
Oft she bathes her in this fountain;
Here Actaeon met his fate,
Pursued by his own hounds,
And after mortal wounds
Discover'd, discover'd too late.
[A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women]

Looking forward to ANY help.

onionesque

gitara na stalym basie i taniec (guitar over a ground bass and a dance)

Explanation:
gitara (barokowa), wariacja na stalym basie, taniec (improwizowany)

Ground Bass/ http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/XXIX/4/340it.
Gitter / http://wapedia.mobi/simple/Guitar
Dances in Purcell's D+A and general analysis/
http://www.operagold.co.uk/pics/Dido.pdf

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Note added at 2 days5 hrs (2009-11-21 06:35:00 GMT)
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To the asker: the answer tidied up as requested ;-)

And big thanks to the moderator, Dr Palka, for his assistance :-).

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gitter ground a dance

gitara na stalym basie i taniec (guitar over a ground bass and a dance)

akkek
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:11
Native speaker of: Polish
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Asker: I'm about to select it as the best one :) Thanks big time :)

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