Carolingian Guild of Musicians and Jongleurs

Medieval Dance (Modern inventions, to Pre-1450AD Music)

• Quen quer que na Virgen fia (Cantiga de Santa Maria no 167) -- (1252AD) Anon. (Alfonso the Xth?); trans Avatar of Catsprey (undated).
• Saltarello, La Regina -- (14th c.) Anon., BL Add. ms 29987, ff 62v-63r; trans. Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib. Letter of Dance, January AS XXV

15th Century

Burgundian Dances

Sources:

• Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche from the ms. 9085, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels (aka "The Brussels Manuscript"), between 1495 to 1501
• L'Art et instruction de bien dancer, Michel Toulouze, 1488

Dance pieces:

• La Danse du Cleves (aka Hearts and Flowers) -- Brussels ms, #57
• Mois de Mai -- Brussels ms, #34, arr, Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• La franchoise nouvelle -- Brussels ms, #58

Italian Basse Dances

• La Spagna
  • I La Spagna aka "Spagna Classic" (for Lauro)
  • II Falla con Misuras (alternate for Lauro)
  • III La Spagna (for Pazienza)
• Mois de Mai (Venus)

Italian Balli

Sources:

• De Practica seu Arte Tripudii ("On the Practice or Art of Dancing"), Guglielmo Ebreo ("the Jew") of Pesaro, 1463
• De arte saltandi et choreas ducendi, Domenico of Piacenza (aka "of Ferrara"), 1455
• Libro dell'Art del Danzare ("Book of the Art of Dance"), Antonio Cornazano, 1455

Dance pieces:

• Amoroso -- Ebreo, 1474?
• Anello -- tenor (middle line) from Domenico, 1455, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Bel Fiore v.beta1 -- tenor (top line) Allegedly from Domenico, cited in Ebreo; arr. Tibicen July AS XXXIII
• Colonese -- Ebreo, 1463
• Geloxia -- tenor (top line) (attr. to Domenico) Ebreo, 1463, arr. Lord Longwind of Neumes, ?, permission granted for use.
• Leoncello -- tenor (middle line) Domenico, 1455, & Ebreo, 1463, arr. Tibicen, 1995
• Mercantia -- tenor (middle line) (attr. to Domenico) Ebreo, 1463, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Petit Vriens -- tenor (bottom line) Ebreo, 1474?, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• El (Rostiboli) Gioioso -- tenor (bottom line) Ebreo, 1474?, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Sobria -- tenor (top line) Domenico, 1455, & Cornazano, 1455, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXI
• Verceppe -- Domenico, 1455, rdd. Tibicen, AS XXVI

16th Century

Bransles

Sources:

• Orchesography, Thoinot Arbeau (aka Jean Tabourot), 1589; pub. Dover, 1967.
• Pierre Phalese, 1571

Pieces:

• Bransle Aridan vb2.2 -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Burgundian Branle -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Branle Coupe Cassandre -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Branle de Charlotte -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Arianna of Winthrope
• Branle des Chevaux (Horse's Branle) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. ??
• Clog Bransle (Bransle de Sabot) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXI
• Branle d'Ecosse (Scottish Branle) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Branle Double (same sheet as Cassandre)
• Bransle Gavotte -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Aurylia Bryhtwyn, AS XXX
• Bransle Gay -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Aurylia Bryhtwyn, AS XXXII
• Premier Branle de la Guerre (War Branle) -- Phalese, 1571
• Haut Barrois -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Godith Anyon, AS XXXI
• Bransle de la Haye -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Gwendolyn of Middlemarch, AS XXXI
• Hermit's Bransle -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXI
• Branle des Lavandieres (Washerwoman's Bransle) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Maltese (Arbeau's) Bransle v1(b)-- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen AS XXXIIII
• Branle Montarde -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Aurylia Bryhtwyn, AS XXX
• Branle Pinagay -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Gwendolyn of Middlemarch, AS XXXI
• Branle de Pois (Peas Branle) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Bransle Poitiou (Tangle Branle) -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXI
• Trihory de Bretagne -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Godith Anyon, AS XXXI

Non-Bransle Arbeau

Sources:

• Orchesography, Thoinot Arbeau (aka Jean Tabourot), 1589; pub. Dover, 1967.
• Danserye, Tielman Susato 1551.

Pieces:

• Buffens -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Gwendolyn of Middlemarch, 2002
• Gorgon Buffens -- Gwendolyn of Middlemarch, 2001
• Candlestick Bransle (La danse du hercules) V2.0 -- Susato, 1551; second section arr. Tibicen AS XXXVI, to accord with Arbeau 1589.
• Carmen's Whistle -- arranged from Robert Johnson by Gwendolyn of Middlemarch, 1997
• La Canarie -- Praetorius, ? (melody in Arbeau, 1589, in cut time)
• Pavane de Spaigne -- Praetorius, ?

Courantos

• Courante (Arbeau's) v1.0 -- Arbeau, 1589, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXVI
• Courante 4 -- Praetorius
• Courante 7 & 8 -- Praetorius
• Courante 10 -- Praetorius

Late Italian: Contrapasso, Balletti, & Cascarda

Sources:

• Nobilta di Dame, Fabritio Caroso, 1600; Ed. J. Sutton, 1986
• Il Ballarino, Fabritio Caroso, 1581

• Ballo del Fiore -- Caroso, 1600
• Contentezza d'Amore -- Caroso, 1600
• Contrapasso Nuovo -- Caroso, 1600
• Furioso all'Italiana -- Caroso, 1600
• Gloria d'Amore Cascarda -- Caroso, 1600, arr. Aurylia Bryhtwyn AS XXXI
• Cascarda da Gracca Amorosa -- Caroso, 1581, trans. Steven Hendricks
• Gut Gsell, du must wandern (for Bizzaria d'Amore) -- Caroso, 1600
• Passo e Mezzo (also for Dolce Amaroso Fiamma) -- Caroso, 1600
• Villanella -- Caroso, 1581, unknown

Pavans, Galliards, & Paired Pavans & Galliards

• Belle, Qui Tiens Ma Vie -- Arbeau, Orchesography, 1589
• Gagliarda
• Mille Regretz / Mille Ducas
• Le Forze d'Hercole
• L'Ennuy Qui Me Tormente -- Arbeau, Orchesography, 1589, arr.?
• Pagget (Pavan, Galliard and Aria del Gran Duca)
• Pavan VI / Galliard IV
• Sir John Souch his Galliard -- Dowland
• Galliard: The New-Yeeres Gift -- Holborn, 1599, LMP AH1
• Recercada Galliard I -- Tibicen, 1998
• Her Highness Anna, Her Pavan -- Tibicen, AS XXXIII

Almans

From "Practice for Dauncinge: Some Almans and a Pavan, England 1570-1650" by Patri Pugliese and Joseph Casazza

• Black Alman -- Unk., Royal College of Music ms. 1119; arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Lorayne Alman (Almande Lorayne) -- Pierre Phalese, 1571
• New Alman (Alemando Novelle) -- Bernard Schmid, 1577
• Olde Alman (The Oulde Almaine) -- Holborne, The Cittharn Schoole, 1597; adp. Giuseppe Casazza
• Queen's Alman -- Byrd, adp. Giuseppe Casazza
• Madam Sosilia Allemand -- Giuseppe Casazza

17th Century

English Country

From The English Dancing Master, by John Playford, First Edition, 1651

• All in a Garden Green -- Playford, 1651, arr. Marshal Barron
• Chestnut V. 3.0a beta -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXVII
• Dargason -- Playford, 1651, arr. Aurylia Bryhtwyn, Ellisif Flakkari, & Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Fain I Would v. beta 2 -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXIII July
• Gathering Peascods -- Playford, 1651, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• Grimstock -- Playford, 1651, arr. Ellisif Flakkari, 1994
• Heart's Ease -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen AS XXXIII
• Hide Parke in C -- Playford, 1651, arr. Giuseppe Casazza
• If All the World Were Paper -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXII
• Jenny Pluck Pears v. beta 1.2 -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXIII
• Mage on a Cree -- Playford, 1651, arr. Marshal Barron
• Parson's Farewell -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXVIIII
• Picking of Sticks & Lavena -- Playford, 1651, arr. Marshal Barron
• Rufty Tufty -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen, AS XXXIII
• Upon a Summer's Day -- Playford, 1651, arr. Tibicen AS XXXIIII

Last modified by Eowyn, 13 February, AS XXXXV (2011 C.E.).