ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the symbiotic relationship between town-music suites from the keyboard and consort repertoires. Keyboard and consort-suite repertoires have movement types in common, most obviously the Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue; but especially with the Sarabande, the commonality often extends to little more than name and the use of triple time. If the Gigue shares a common language between keyboard and consort, the dance that changes least in the transfer from one genre to the other is the Allemande. In keeping with the Hamburg tradition, Reincken's keyboard Allemandes and Courantes are frequently linked, either at their openings or as full re-castings. The manuscript contains keyboard music thought to be by Matthias Weckmann, but the attribution cannot be completely certain. In the consort repertoire, the lack of joined-up note tails was obviously undesirable, and it is telling that manuscript copies of printed editions usually beamed together quavers and semiquavers in the normal way.
