SCA Dance: What's New?

• moved: John Playford's The English Dancing Master, first edition, 1651 transcription
• replaces EMEDD: Lexicons of Early Modern English (i.e. dictionaries)

• Il Papa (mid 16th century Italian source, transcription, translation, reconstructions)

• Cornazano's "Libro dell'arte del danzare" (Rvat) manuscript (Vatican, c. 1455)

• a summary of all editions of Playford

The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England

• The Library of Dance Vintage Dance Manuals (15th century to modern)
• Domenico's "De la arte di ballare et danzare" (PnD) manuscript (BnF, c. 1425)
• Gugliomo's "De pratica seu arte tripudii" (PnG) manuscript (BnF, c. 1463)

• Sloane ms. 3858

Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (aka Brussles MS. Transcription and facsimile)

• DHDS loses the Dolmetsch: Historical Dance Society
• Early Dance Circle

• Middle Kingdom FB group
• Ealdormere FB group
• Meridies FB group

• SCA Dance Practices of the Known World (map)
• SCA Dance Practices of the Known World (spreadsheet)

• Reformation and Revelry: The Practices and Politics of Dancing in Early Modern England, c.1550-c.1640

• Lupi's Libro di gagliarda, 1600 and 1607, facsimile (and transcription in progress)

• Early Music and Dance, an electronic journal

• http://www.kwdsviii.org Known World Dance Symposium VIII, now on the main KWDS website

• The Known World Dance and Music Symposium (KWDMS) Event Organization Guide
• The KWDMS Event Proposal Template

• MSEng1356 facsimile, transcription, analysis, and article (new ECD source)

• more dance images

• Atenveldt mailing list

• Ansteorra FB group (was a mailing list)
• Saltare (Meridies)
• Ealdormere mailing list
• An Tir dance mailing list
• Carolingia (East)

• added link to the new sca-dance subscription and archive webpage.

'New' mailing lists:

• Outlands Dance mailing list
• Calontir Dance mailing list
• Gleann Abhann Dance mailing list
• Trimaris Dance mailing list
• Caid Dance mailing list
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meridies-dance Meridies Dance mailing list, now kaput

• The Chicago Renaissance Dance Meetup

• More Gresley info

• Origins of the 'Playford Dances'

• Dance Images

• The seventeenth century accounts of the masters of the revels by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael), 1841-1929

• The Dance of Death by Holbein, Hans

• Differences Among Different Copies and Editions of Negri's Dance Manuals
• Copying between Negri and Caroso
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book
• Hans Holbein, the younger; his O\d Testament illustrations, Dance of death and other woodcuts;
• The Dance of death: in a series of engravings on wood from designs attributed to Hans Holbein with a treatise on the subject
• The Dance of death: exhibited in elegant engravings on wood with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject but more particularly on those ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein:

• Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I
• Notes on the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors
• A renaissance courtesy-book, Galateo, Of manners and behaviours by Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556

• Documents relating to the Office of the revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth

• The Dance (by An Antiquary): Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.

• A Masque Gown

• Baldassare Castiglione, the perfect courtier; his life and letters, 1478-1529
• The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione, ed. by Walter Alexander Raleigh, trans. by Thomas Hoby
• Extracts from the accounts of the Revels at court: in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I, from the original office books of the masters and yeomen

• Extracts from the accounts of the Revels at court : in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I, from the original office books of the masters and yeomen

• Playford 1st edition facsimile (1651)

• http://www.sca.org.au/kwds/ Known World Dance Symposium IV (Australia, July 2-5, 2005) (now on the main KWDS website)
• Navarro's Discursos Sobre el Arte Del Dançado (1642)
• Domenico's PnD manuscript (c. 1425)

• new vedor: fa-gisis (publisher of early music and dance stuff)

• The Discription of a Maske, Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfth Night last, in Honour of the Lord Hayes, and his Bride (Thomas Campion, 1607)

• THE Schoole of Abuse, Conteining a plesaunt inuective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Iesters and such like Caterpillers of a commonwealth; (1579)

• A few Playford tunes arranged by John Chandler

• Arena (1538: etiquette, bransles, basse dances) (facsimile only)

• two local groups: Steppes, and http://members.cox.net/rendancers/ Wiesenfeuer (now dead).

• Search CDs to find composers/tunes, at medieval.org and freedb.org

• Caroso's Nobilta di dame (1600, facsimile and transcription)
• Lutio Compasso's Ballo Della Gagliarda (1560) (transcription only)
• Toulouze's L'art Et Instruction De Bien Dancer (first printed dance manual)
• Jacques Moderne's Basses Dances book (c. 1532)

• Traitté contre les danses par Jean Boiseul (1606)
• Relation du Grand Ballé (1619)

• A Treatise of Daunses (anti-dance polemic, 1581)

• Starting Sources For Renaissance Dance Reconstruction and Study

• Archaic Italian Verb Conjugations
• Randle Cotgrave's 1611 French/English Dictionary

• Gaita

• http://aands.org/danceevents.html Recurring Dance Events, sadly unmaintained.

• The Dance of Death in Book Illustration
• The Book of the Courtier

• Medieval Images of Dancing

• http://www.ianthe.org/sca/dance/ Bryn-Gwlad Dance Guild, now dead.

• The West Kingdom College of Dance

• The dance, ancient and modern / translated from the French by Arabella E. Moore, 1900.

• An amazingly long but inconclusive article about Trenchmore

• Prospero Lutii's Opera bellissima... di gagliarda (transcription)

• Del's dance book updated

• An Introduction to Labanotation

• ORB article on Medieval Dance (good introduction)

• John Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary

• Negri's Nuove inventioni di balli (1602/4, facsimile and transcription) or Negri's Nuove inventioni di balli (1604, images only)

• Lochac's Silver Rondel

• the Salisbury manuscript (basse dances)

• Dragonscale Consort (cd of dance music)
• Musica Subterranea (3 cds of dance music)
• The Lorin Manuscript (1686)

• Dances from the Gresley Manuscript - Circa 1500

• The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson, 1605)
• The Masque of Beauty (Ben Jonson, 1608)
• Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court (Ben Jonson, 1616)

• new site for Arbeau's Orchesography

• References to Dance in Sixteen Early Modern Dictionaries

• The Nürnberg Manuscript (1517, Italian in style)
• The Cervera Manuscript (c. 1496, 4 sheets, Spanish source similar to Burgundian basse dance)

• http://www.generalist.org/susan/scadcou.html Quotes from Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano, 1528, now dead

• Cesare Negri's Salti del Fiocco

• Dancing at Pennsic

• Stefan's Florilegium Dance message compilation
• Saltare (Meridies)
• http://dance.ansteorra.org/ Ansteorran Guild of European Dancers, now kaput
• L'Academie Atlantienne de la Danse
• Accademia Della Danza (Carolingia), http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ebenwitz/jaradance.html Barony of Jararvellir (now dead), Saltatoris (Northwoods)

• Mara's Teaching Notes for Galliards
• Mara's Teaching Techniques for Dancemasters

• A summary of all editions of Playford

• Dafydd's Playford ECD Page

• Download articles from Historical Dance

• Practise for Dauncinge Some Almans and a Pavan, England 1570-1650: A Manual for Dance Instruction
• Music for the Old Measures (Joseph Casazza)

• Renaissance Historical Dance Society

• Mara's Carman's Whistle Canary

• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4417/baldance.html Fifteenth-Century Italian Balli (geocities is dead, look in Joy and Jealousy)
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4417/quadance.html Dances in Quadernaria (geocities is dead, look in Joy and Jealousy)
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4417/pivadance.html Piva -- A 15th Century Dance (geocities is dead, look in Joy and Jealousy)

• US Library of Congress video clips

• Eric's Music and Dance page including...
  • Phaedria's Dance Music
  • Really cheap CDs of dance music

• SCA Dance Cheat Sheets updated

• Dur's middle eastern newsletter

• Society of Dance History Scholars

• Il Papa (mid 16th century Italian source)

• The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database

• added Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (some Renaissance material)

• Letter of Dance site adds most back-issues

• Joy and Jealousy (ad for book/tape about 15th century Italian Balli)

• added Transcribing and Reading White Mensural Notation (mid 16th century)

• Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society

• added PERFORM -- Medieval Performing arts (also highly academic)

• added Phaedria's Dance Music (freely copyable)

• added Sixteenth Century Ballads

• added Music for the dances in Arbeau's Orchesography (Joseph Casazza)

• added Del's Dance Book

• added Dances from the Inns of Court (ad for a book/cd)

• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/curante.htm Arbeau and the Coranto, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/whitrose.htm 15th Century Italian dance translations, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/Estampie.htm Estampies and pre-15th Century Dance, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/daufine.htm Ma Dame La Daufine & Ma Dame de Facon, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/1986.htm Experimental compositions for 15thC Bassadanze, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/Rhythms.htm Rhythms in 15thC Italian dance and how can we get them right?, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/Dhdsmidi.htm Midi files of 15thC balli from the DHDS Summer School Booklet, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/16th.htm nterpreting the 16thC. dance suite, now dead
• added http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaybc/index.htm Dance music MIDI files and notes on making them, now dead

• added http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html Records of Early English Drama (REED) [now dead, plus not so much a dance link...]

• added http://www.umich.edu/~cynnabar/Activities/Playford Another version of Playford, now dead

• added Celeste Giglio: Flowers of 16th-century Dance (an ad) (link updated 2023)

• added Images from Arbeau's Orchesography
• added Images from Caroso's Il Ballarino

• added Music for the dances in Arbeau's Orchesography (Joseph Casazza)

• added Renaissance Dance (Primary) Sources (from Joseph Casazza)

• Added A Caroso-style Ball

• added list of arrangers.

• Added pointer to The Institute of Historical Dance homepage.

• Added link to the RENDANCE homepage

• Gregorian Chant
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (music theory texts in Latin)

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