Renaissance Dance Sources

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Fifteenth Century

• Two Suggestions for Reading PnD (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, f. Ital. 972), by Joseph Casazza and Elizabeth Cain.

Choreographies

Burgundian

• Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche, transcription of Ms. 9085, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels, by Lieven Baert and Veerle Fack. From the IHDP Archive.
• Burgundian Dance in the Late Middle Ages from the Library of Congress, including digitized images of Les Basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche.
• The Salisbury MS. Fly-leaf in Joh. de Janua, Catholicon (Venice, Io. Hamman, 1497). Copy in the library of Salisbury cathedral. From the IHDP Archive.

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Italian

• Guglielmo Ebreo. Trattato dell'arte del ballo di Guglielmo Ebreo, pesarese. Italy, ca. 1460. Translation of the bassedanze by Jessica Polito, based on the transcription by F. Zambrini, Bologna: Presso Gaetano Romagnoli, 1873.
• Guglielmo Ebreo. Trattato dell'arte del ballo di Guglielmo Ebreo, pesarese. Italy, ca. 1460. Translation of the balli by Jessica Polito, based on the transcription by F. Zambrini, Bologna: Presso Gaetano Romagnoli, 1873.

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Descriptions of Dancing

Italian

• Magliabechiana Cod. XXV, 24, Florence, 1459. Transcribed by Giuseppe Tartini. You can also retrieve a text-only version.
• Magliabechiana Cod. VII, 1121, Florence, 1459. Transcribed by Joseph Casazza.
• Bibl. Estense, Cod. ital. n. 521, the "festa del Paradiso" of January 13, 1490. Transcribed by Edmondo Solmi. You can also retrieve a text-only version.

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Sixteenth Century

Choreographies

Italian

• The "Il Papa" Manuscript (New York Public Library, Performing Arts Research Center, Dance Collection, (S) *MGZMB-Res. 72-255, Manoscritto di balletti composti da Giovannino e Il Lanzino e Il Papa; scritto da Cosimo Ticcio. [155-?] [27] p. (26-31 lines) 29 cm. (f.) Cia Fornaroli Collection. NN 72-7014766). Transcribed by Joseph Casazza and Elizabeth Cain.
• Fabritio Caroso. Il Ballarino.Venice: Apresso Francesco Ziletti, 1581. Transcription by Greg Lindahl.
• Prospero Lutii, Opera Bellissima... di Gagliarda, Perugia, 1589. Transcribed by Joseph Casazza.
• Renaissance Dance from the Library of Congress, including digitized images of Cesare Negri's Nuove inventioni di balli [1604], and Fabritio Caroso's Il ballarino [1581] and Nobiltà de dame [1600].

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French

• Renaissance Dance from the Library of Congress, including digitized images of Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesography [1589].

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English

• Practise for Dauncinge Some Almans and a Pavan, England 1570-1650: A Manual for Dance Instruction by Patri J. Pugliese and Joseph Casazza.

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Dance Music

• Music for the Dances in Arbeau's Orchesography, an article on musical concordances, by Joseph Casazza. Now includes links to settings by Joseph Casazza of Arbeau's tunes for which no 16th century settings exist. You can also retrieve a text-only version (no hypertext links).
• Jean d'Estrée's Books of Dance Music. Transcribed by Joseph Casazza.
• Music for the Old Measures. Set, edited, or composed by Joseph Casazza.

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Seventeenth Century

Choreographies

English

• The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium by Robert M. Keller. For this publication every dance was reduced to a code enabling comparison with similar dances. The unique or "Ur" dances were identified and collected into a database where each dance's printing history and other information is summarized and a facsimile of the dance and its music is included. The Index presents every item by title with links to the Ur Dance Index. The Title/Link takes the reader to a bibliography of the sources. Searches can be made on all text entries as well as on the dance coding to find instances of specific dance figures in juxtaposition with others.
• Practise for Dauncinge Some Almans and a Pavan, England 1570-1650: A Manual for Dance Instruction by Patri J. Pugliese and Joseph Casazza.
• John Playford, The English Dancing Master, 1651

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Dance Music

• Music for the Old Measures. Set, edited, or composed by Joseph Casazza.

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Other Renaissance Dance Pages

• Institute of Historical Dance (Ghent, Belgium)
• Nonsuch History and Dance Company. Nonsuch is a leading Early Dance company with an established reputation in teaching and performance. Promoting its own characteristic 'housestyle' it brings alive dances from the middle ages to the 19th century, using readings from contemporary letters, diaries, poetry and prose.
• Rendance.Org by Andrew Draskóy.
• Western Social Dance: An Overview from the Library of Congress.

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Last Update: December 15, 2004

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