Du XVe siècle à la Renaissance, nous connaissons essentiellement la danse de cour. Bien danser, savoir chanter et jouer d’un instrument permettaient de tenir avec grâce et dignité son rang dans la société. La Renaissance en musique et en danse est caractérisée par l’introduction dans le registre courtois de formes et d’éléments populaires. C’est ainsi qu’une part importante est accordée aux rondes, facteur de convivialité et de cohésion sociale.
All levels
transcribed and edited, with an introduction, by D. R. Wilson
(Sources for Early Dance: Series 1, Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1, 1988.)
Domenico’s treatise transcribed including the dance-descriptions (18 balli with their tunes and 5 basse danze).
The text is given in a modern typeface, but otherwise in a form that is as near to the original as can be conveniently obtained. Abbreviations are expanded, but spelling, word-division and line-division are as in the original. Different scribal hands are distinguished, and scribal corrections are fully documented.
A comprehensive introduction by Ellis Rogers offers comments on the interpretation of the quadrille. Remarks on the interpretation of the music are by Meryl Thomson of Green Ginger.
This CD of PDF images contains thirteen Sets of Quadrilles, composed in the early nineteenth century by J. Paine. Over 300 hundred pages offer: first, the dances in their original format; the music, transcribed for legibility, indicates the repeat sequences; the original dance instructions for each quadrille are given, in considerably abbreviated form, below the music.
Ten sheets of authoritative information on historical dance from the Middle Ages to the Victyorian period and the related arts of music and costume.
Price - UK £2.50; Europe £3.50; Elsewhere £4.50
A comprehensive review of evidence for the performance of the twenty-one main steps and step-sequences, through an anlysis of the dance description.
By David Wilson(2003).
Price - £10.00; (inc. P&P - UK - £12.00; EU - £14.00; Elsewhere - £16.00)
All the fascinating dances of 15th century Italy are translated into English, with account taken of the more significant variants found in the 12 available texts and with commentary on the knotty points. The music is not included.
Sources are evaluated both as a literary tradition and as a performing tradition. Areas of difficulty where a text does not make choreographic sense are noted and possible explanations are offered.
By David Wilson(1999).
Price - £13.00; (inc. P&P - UK - £16.00; EU - £18.00; Elsewhere - £23.00)
This booklet offers brief guidance to 25 handwritten or printed sources giving technical information on dance in Western Europe in the Early Renaissance. The sources are held in libraries and collections in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States, with texts in Castilian, Catalan, English, French, German, Italian and macaronic Latin. Systematic notes give the location, date, contents and principal pulications for each document.
By David Wilson(2003).
Price - £3.50; (inc. P&P - UK - £4.50; EU - £6.00; Elsewhere - £7.50)
Presenting the original text for each dance, with abbreviations extended, and editorial comment to aid reconstruction. Many dances had been in use since the 1570s and so are given here in late 16th century and early 17th century style.
Edited by David Wilson(2001).
Price - £7; (inc. P&P - UK - £9.50; EU - £11.00; Elsewhere - £14.00)
8 papers on the place, value and organisation of Early Dance within education, from primary school to teacher training college, and a variety of contexts within the community, such as work with the visually impaired, with juvenile ballet classes, within public concerts and at living hisotry events.
Edited by David Wilson(1999).
Price - £6; (inc. P&P - UK - £7.50; EU - £9.00; Elsewhere - £10.50)
These papers presented: A lively picture of the London theatre, Stage dancing and related matters in the second half of the 17th century; How stage dancing survived the closing of the theatres during the Interregnum; A comparison of aspects of the reign of Charles II with those of the Commonwealth and reign of Charles I; How far did magistrates relax their standards?
Edited by David Wilson(2002).
Price - £6; (inc. P&P - UK - £7.50; EU - £9.00; Elsewhere - £10.50)