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Historical Re-enactment
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Music Resources
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Text Resources
Isabeau's home page

Web Resources:

Renaissance Dance homepage:

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~andrew/rendance.html
Joseph Casazza’s Renaissance dance page: http://users.erols.com/eacain/dance/rendance.html
SCA dance page: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance.html
The Letter of Dance: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lod/
Renaissance Faires and Information (Includes info on US Ren faires, costuming, dance, music, vendors, etc…exhaustive!): http://www.cygnus.com/~meissner/ren.html
Eric Praetzel's Dance Page http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/sca-music.html
Renaissance Dance Historical Society (UK) http://members.aol.com/ukdancesoc/renais2.htm
The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium By Robert M. Keller http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/
Russell Almond's Early Dance Music http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/almond/

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Music Resources

SCA Sources Commercial Sources*
SCA downloadable dance music MP3 collection
Posted by Eric Praetzel
Renaissonics: The Renaissance Dance Band
(various titles offered on Amazon.com)

Music Subterranea
An SCA dance band with CDs for sale

The Broadside Band
(various titles offered on Amazon.com)
The Dragon Scale Consort
A an SCA dance band with CDs for sale
The New York Renaissance Band
(various titles offered on Amazon.com)
A Renaissance Dance Discography
published in the Letter of Dance
The Baltimore Consort

*Rember that much commercially produced music is intended for listening, and may not be danceable due to tempo variations, missing measures, and other factors.

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Text Resources:

Orchesography
by Thoinot Arbeau, Mary S. Evans (Translator), J. Sutton (Illustrator), June 1995, Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486217450
Facsimiles of "Orchesography" in French are available on line from the Library of Congress

Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame
by Fabritio Caroso, Julia Sutton (Translator), F. Maria Walker, (November 1995), Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486286193

The English Dancing Master : Or, Plaine and Easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune to Each Dance
by John Playford, Hugh Mellor (Editor), Leslie Bridgewater (Editor), June 1999, Dance Books Ltd; ISBN: 0903102803
Facsimiles of all editions of "The Dancing Master" are available on line from the Country Dance and Song Society.

The Playford Ball : 103 Early Country Dances, 1651-1820 : as Interpreted by Cecil Sharp and his Followers
by Kate Van Winkle Keller, Country Dance and Song Society; ASIN: 0917024079. This book is out of print.

De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii: on the Practice or Art of Dancing
by Guglielmo Ebreo , Barbara Sparti (Editor), August 1995 Clarendon Pr; ISBN: 0198165749

Dances from the Inns of Court, London 1570-1675
by Peter and Janelle Durham, can be ordered (includes CD, booklet, and US postage) from Peter and Janelle Durham, 16217 NE 44th Ct., Redmond, WA 98052, janelyn@msn.com. Last price I heard quoted was $11, but you might want to email and make sure. See http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance/inns_of_court.html

Joy and Jealousy: A Manual of 15th-Century Italian Balli
by Vivian Stephens and Monica Cellio. This book is temporarily out of print, but the authors are planning to reprint. You can contact the authors c/o Monica Cellio, cellio@pobox.com. May also be available from Eric Praetzel, praetzel@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca. See ttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjc/jj.html

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Historical Re-enactment and Hobby Groups

Society for Creative Anachronism: http://www.sca.org/
Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia: http://www.markland.org/
Medieval Scenarios and Recreations, Ltd., Kingdom of Acre: http://www.kingdomofacre.org

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Last revision: 11/19/2001

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