In Renaissance and baroque music, the question “who *borrowed* the material from whom, is complex if not irrelevant at times. However I am a little puzzled, how Silvius Leopold Weiss's Gavotte in D Minor SW14* from London Manuscript (1717-1724) is so resemblant of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Par un sommeil agréable from the 2nd act of Dardanus (1739). ( Read more... )