westdance: Franciose Nouvelle

[Crystal A. Larsen]

I've been promising this, but keep forgetting. 

If you want to make a cheat-sheet for the dance ball, please wait a few minutes for some one to chime in with a correction, then transform this to whatever notation makes sense to you.

Franciose Nouvelle, for couples as will

Rev, Bransel

First verse:
SS, DDDfwd
SS, Dback

Chorus:
SSDfwd
Dback, Bransel

Second verse:
SS, DDDfwd
Dback, Dfwd, Dback, Bransel

Chorus:
SSDfwd
Dback, Bransel

Rev


Franciose Nouvelle is a 15th century Burgundian dance from the Brussels manuscript (“Brussels Manuscript”, Le manuscrit dit des basses, est. 1490’s; facsimile transcribed and edited by Ernest Closson, Le Manuscrit Dit Des Basses Danses De La Bibliotheque De Bourgogne, Brussels: 1912; reprinted Geneve: Minkoff, 1976). Please see http://www.peterdur.us/kwds2007/proceedings/15th-to-16th-C-Basse-Dance.htm)