10. FRENCH MUSIC AND DANCE

France has a very rich and varied dance tradition and almost every region of France has its own distinct forms of music and dances.

French are by nature very fond of music and dance, and are credited to invent several of world-famous dances.

French Classical Music

French classical music is one of the most known by its beauty and of course by its renowned composers such as Pérotin, Machaut , Josquin de, Roussel, Milhaud, Poulenc and Messiaen.

French Hip Hop Music

Although, Hip Hop is an American music gender and most of the famous singers are American, French is an important country where Hip Hop was developed in a great force.

French Pop Music

Pop music currently has many famous interpreters such as Alizée, Natasha Bedingfield and Cerena, although they are not as popular in America as in France, their songs are fantastic and they have won many music awards.

French Rock Music

French Rock Music is produced in France and is a style of rock singed in French.

Carols are simple chain dances in which a linked line of dancers moved forwards, walking, running or skipping to their own singing. Other popular traditional dance types in France include Canarie, Forlane, Gavotte, Gigue, Menuet and Sarabande.

Bourrée Dance

The bourrée, one of the most popular folk dances of France, comes in many regional varieties.The bourrée is a line dance, with a line of men facing and dancing with a line of women.

Polynesian Dance

French Polynesia is a group of islands in the South Pacific including Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora.

Social dance

Other dance styles, such as the Italian and Spanish dances of the period are much less well studied than either English country dance or the French style.

Basse Dance

The French basse danse comes in two catagories: regular and irregular. The difference is that a regular basse dance contains 80 bars in its main part. In every four bars, or one quaternion, dancers perform either a double step, two single steps, a step called a reprise, or a branle, a kind of chain dance in which dancers join together and move side to side, either in a circle on in a serpentine pattern. Irregular basse dances deviate from this structure.

G. PavithaSri

B.Sc Psychology