Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 The Libro Quarto
2:30 Interpreting the Allemande
6:14 A "binary Gigue"
8:38 Demonstration of binary vs ternary
10:16 Similarities with a Gigue by Biber
11:30 Concluding the Sarabande
15:35 Movement information
15:50 Allemande
19:36 Gigue
21:23 Courante
23:00 Sarabande
25:34 Appendix: Sarabande (alternate ending)
27:59 Patreon information

Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite IX in g minor (from Libro Quarto, 1656):
I. Allemande
II. Gigue
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande

John Moraitis, harpsichord.
Harpsichord by Martine Argellies (Montpellier, 2012), after Dulcken.
Temperament: Rameau. A=415 Hz

Links:

My discussion and performance of Froberger's Suite XVIII in g minor: youtube.com/watch?v=TcLpVArfQbk

Amy Zanrosso's article "The Baffling Binary Gigue" can be read here: scena.org/lsm/sm7-5/students-en.html