Annotated Bibliography of Renaissance Dance - Shadow Island ...

80 Annotated Bibliography of Renaissance DanceThe EnglishDancing Master, 1-4.Orange and Blue, and The Ranchers LP: CDSS, EFDSS PLA 1-4, 1976-81.JPD: Aesthetic appeal: *** Usability: **** This whole series was producedby the English Folk Dance and Song Society for use at dance events,similar to our own purposes. It's all good tempo, and quite danceable to. Alittle modern sounding for SCA use, but not excessively so.LH: These four volumes (still available but only on all LP) are the "basicPlayford" teaching records put out by the EFDSS based on Sharp'stranscriptions of the dances. I don't particularly care for theirinstrumentation (I'm not partial to concertina/accordion) and some of thetempos are not what we're used to in California, but L&U and a lot of othercountry dance groups have relied on them when we couldn't find dancemusic for a particular dance with the right number of repeats anywhereelse (54 different dances on 4 records -- not all are from Playford's 1stedition). Remember that they are more concerned with community dancingthan with "period" and their instrumentation reflects this. You can likenthis to square dancing for the British.The EnglishDancing Master, 1Orange and Blue LP: CDSS, EFDSS PLA 1, 1976.Track Listing: Gathering Peascods, Hey Boys, up go we, My Lady Cullen,Grimstock, Mage on a Cree, Adson's Saraband, 29th of May, Jenny PluckPears, Parson's Farewell, Upon a Summers Day, Dargason, Chestnut,Amarillis, Old Mole.The EnglishDancing Master, 2Orange and Blue LP: CDSS, EFDSS PLA 2, 1977.Track Listing: Althea, Friar and the Nun, Fain I would, Maid's Morris,Confess, Argeers, Lull me beyond thee, Maiden Lane, Merry MerryMilkmaid, Broom the bonny bonny Broom, Spring Garden, The Pheonix.The EnglishDancing Master, 3The Ranchers LP: CDSS, EFDSS PLA 3, 1980.Track Listing: Sellenger's Round, My Lady Winwood's Maggot (1728), TheBoatman, Whirligig (tune: Woodicock), Heartsease, The Health, MockHobby Horse (1698), Picking of Sticks, Mr. Isaac's Maggot (1695), Hit andMiss, Juice of Barley (1690), King of Poland (1698), Orleans Baffled (1728)The EnglishDancing Master, 4Orange and Blue LP: CDSS, EFDSS PLA 4, 1981.The Lady and theUnicornRenbourne, John CD: Shanachie, 97022.Track Listing: Trotto; Saltarell; Lamento di Tristan; La Rotta; Veri Floris;Triple Ballade; Bransle Gay; Bransle de Bourgogne; Alman; MelancholyGalliard; Sarabande; The Lady and the Unicorn; Medley; Westron Wynde;Scarborough Fair.AB: I believe the "Alman" on the recording is the well-known Earl ofSalisbury Pavan music. The CD comes with sheet music in the programnotes for all the tunes.