All three )Arbeau, Caroso and Negri) are available on-line from the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html And for Caroso there is Julia Sutton's translation and edition, _Courtly Dance of the Renassnce_ (Dover, 1995), with labanotation for the dance steps.. Some dance steps are shown on video from the LofC: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html You, too, can learn how to dance a pavane and galliard, or a quadrille and Schottische ==ajn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LuteNet list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:20 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Stung Again > Around Dowland's time there were at least three major > treatises on > dance: Coroso, Negri, Arbeau, the first two written in > lute tab with > mensural notation for melodies and often bass lines. > They explain how > to do the steps and lay out whole dances set to > specific music. The > dances and steps are open to interpretation in the > same way that > musicians have different opinions on tempos, ornaments > etc. > You could probably find much information about it > through Google. > cheers, > > On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:39 AM, Herbert Ward wrote: > >> To what degree are the historical dances preserved? > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
