Passepied

The Passepied is a historic French round dance of Baroque music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Passe pied means beat feet over each other '.

The Passepied was often part of the Baroque dance suite. In the original form of dancing in moderately fast straight stroke, it developed over time into an ever faster dance in triple meter (3/ 8, 3 /4 or 6/8, mostly upbeat ). Sometimes come in Passepieds also clock change. In Johann Sebastian Bach dance for example, appears in the first orchestral suite and in the 5th English Suite.

Johann Mattheson wrote of the Passepied: ... it is not found in the restlessness and fickleness of such Passepied long the zeal, the anger or the heat encountered in a volatile Gigue. Meanwhile, it's also such a kind of frivolity that has in itself nothing hateful or ill- overdue, but rather good as well.

• Courtly dance
• Dance in Western culture