chapter two
DANCE

TimothyJ.McGee

Dancing in Medieval Life … 65
Sacred and Symbolic Dance … 67
Conventional Dance Formations and Steps … 70
Popular Dances … 73
Additional Dance Types … 79
Choreographed Dancing … 81
Dancing Masters … 81
The Basse Danse and the Bassadanza … 84
The Ballo … 86

Antonio Cornazano … 88
Domenico da Piacenza … 88
Guglielmo Ebreo … 89
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras … 89
Ippolita Maria Sforza … 90

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
Terms in Medieval Dance … 65
Hysterical Dancing (excerpt from Giraldus Cambrensis' Journey Through Wales) … 69
Dance Terms From De Musica (excerpt from Johannes de Grocheio's De Musica) … 74
Two Evenings of Dance (excerpt from Simone Prodenzani's Il Sapporitto) … 75
A Round Dance (music notation and lyrics to one of the earliest known round dances) … 76
A Dancing Scene from Romance of the Rose (excerpt from the thirteenth-century poem describing a carol) … 77
A "Christmas" Carol (a carol in Latin and English for the Feast of the Annunciation) … 77
Kalenda Maya (a song by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras) … 78
A Noble Offer (letter from a dance master seeking employment under Lorenzo de' Medici) … 82
Rules for Women in Dance (excerpt from Guglielmo Ebreo's On the Practice or Art of Dancing) … 83
An Example of Dance Notation (French shorthand connecting the steps of a dance to notes of music) … 86
A Fifteenth-Century Ballo (music notation to the melody of the ballo "Petit Vriens") … 87