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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 92 19:52:19
From: kab@cambridge.apple.com (Kim Barrett)
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
Subject: CD of 14th century Italian dance music

I'd originally intended to send this to a smaller group of people, but there 
were enough interested people at dance practice last night that giving it wider 
distribution seemed warranted.

While I was browsing through Tower Records this weekend I found a real treasure 
of a CD:

        "Mesura et Arte del Danzare: Balli Italiani del Quatrocento", Accademia           
        Viscontea i Musicanti, Ducale CDL 002, (p) 1991

From the liner notes:
  This record is in addition to the international iconographic exhibition 
  "MESURA ET ARTE DEL DANZARE, Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro e la danza nelle corti 
  del XV secolo", organized by Commune of Pesaro in July 1987 on the occasion 
  of the omonymous international study congress.

This is a CD devoted to 14th century Italian dance music, specifically the 
works of Domenico and Ebreo.  The music is arranged for dancing, with 
introductions, good tempos, and reasonable numbers of repetitions.  Some of the 
pieces match choreographies we know.  It includes

1. Leoncello (D. da Piacenza)
2. Marchesana (D. da Piacenza)
3. Anello (D. da Piacenza)
4. Colonnese (G. Ebreo)
5. Vercepe (D. da Piacenza)
6. Petit Riense (G. Ambrosio)
7. Voltate in ca Rosina (G. Ambrosio)
8. Margaritum (anon)
9. Poi che'l ciel e la Fortuna (anon)
10. Rostiboli Gioioso (D. da Piacenza)
11. Grazioso (G. Ebreo)
12. La fia Gugliemina (D. da Piacenza)
13. A Florence la hoyose cite / Helas la fille guillemin (anon)
14. Gelosia (D. da Piacenza)
15. Mercanzia (D. da Piacenza)
16. Sobria (D. da Piacenza)

Leoncello fits the choreography we've been using.  Vercepe fits the 
choreography used in the performances last spring at Happy Feet and Feast of 
Northern Lights, except that maybe the quaternaria section is slightly shorter.  
Also, the bassadanse sections are significantly slower than we were doing it.  
Gelosia differs in a number of small ways from what I'm accustomed to, mostly 
in the number of repetitions of certain sections, but it's quite usable (and 
fairly fast).