SCA Dance CDs and Books

All CDs for sale on this site are made with the permission of the copyright holders.

The 3 CDs which have a royalty may not be copied. (Marian Ensemble, Inns of Court, Mock Hobby Horse)
The other CDs may be freely distributed within the SCA (check the liner notes for info) but may not be sold without permission.

In July 1998 I setup a US $ bank account to make selling these CDs easier. Around July 2005 I closed the account due to a dramatic reduction in sales, and losses with the falling US dollar.

By summer 2006 CD sales stoped. I no longer stock or make CDs. The MP3's available on this site get downloaded a lot so I assume that people use them.

The CDRs that I've used and my experiences are on my CD Liners web page

Dance CDs Sources

USA
Click here to email Greg (lindahl@pbm.com) Greg sells a set of CDs which includes many of the CDs on this web page. He does not handle mail order.

Canada &
Foreign As of 2007 I don't sell CDs any more. It seems that CD players tend to be very sensitive to CDs made by burners. As I sell the CDs at cost - every time I run into this I loose money. Some buyers have had severe problems, and CD sales are so low, that I no longer sell CDs. The MP3's are available.

Australia
Del has made a seperate bunch of CDs using the music on this web page.
Click here to email Del (del@sca.org.au)

Discography

The easiest way to find out exactly what is on a CD is to look at the CD Liners web page. The lists below are a list of what was on the original tape / CD when it was released. If you look at my "Notes on the Music" section below; you'll find changes that I've made. In one case (Tape of Dance 2) I could not fit all of the music onto a CD; and in other cases; I added music because there was room.
Here is a list of the dance songs on the original tape / CDs. In cases songs have been added or removed to the CDs I sell.

SCA Dance Music available on my CDs and web pages

Follow the links in the first column for more information and Real Audio music for listening.

CD info and RealAudio Music	MP3 Music	# of songs	Music source, Date
Carolingian Incomplete Arbeau	MP3	31 + 6 lengthened 59:13	cassette, 1981
Shire of the Isles Vol 1-3 from Caid	MP3	25 tracks 86:30	cassette, 1992
The ~~Tape of Dance 1~~		Replaced by Tape of Dance 2	cassette, 1991
The Tape of Dance 2	MP3	30 tracks 73:58	cassette, 1995
The Tape of Dance 3	MP3	22 tracks 61:15	CD, 1997
The Tape of Dance 4	MP3	33 tracks 73:35	CD, 2001
The Tape of Dance 5	This project failed!
The Companions of St. Cecilia: Vol. I	MP3	22 tracks 53:00	cassette, 1990
The Companions of St. Cecilia: Vol. II	MP3	27 tracks 53:00 incl. 7 tracks from Ansteorran CD	cassette, 1991
The ~~Marian Ensemble~~ Out of Print! This CD has been replaced by Dances by the Marian Ensemble.	MP3	12 tracks 38 min. Digital Bonus	cassette, 1998
Dances from Inns of the Court also the offical Jouissance music web page	MP3	20 tracks 34:20	CD, 1997
Ansteorran Dance Symposium AS xxvii	MP3	17 tracks (aprox 36 min) Digital Bonus	tape, 1992

Synth. Music MP3 Music # of songs Original Music Source

Ellisif's sheet music and
Joy & Jealousy book & music MP3 24 + 9 slowed 72:13 synthesized on CD

~~Del's Dance Disc~~ Out of Print!
I will make copies on special request only. MP3's not available 29 tracks 67:53
Digital Bonus synthesized on CD

Early Dance Music MP3's not available ONLY 28 tracks 72:29 (Compiled from a 2 CD set) synthesized on CD

Compilation CDs # of songs Music source

~~MP3 CD~~ of 12 of the 13 CDs
This CD is made by special order only. Inns of Court, Marian Ensemble and Mock Hobby Horse not included >225 tracks 8+ hours
1200+ songs of sheet music The music is from the above CDs. Not all CDs are included. Email Eric for details.

Non-Dance CDs # of songs Music source

Heather Dale's - May Queen
11 tracks CD 2004

Heather Dale's - The Trial of Lancelot and
Her Trial of Lancelot web page with sound clips 9 tracks 39:08 CD 1999

Mock Hobby Horse 25 tracks 60:49 2 tapes 1998

Good SCA Dance Music which we don't sell

Jouyessance - Stowe's Dance band Music coming soon! ?? 2004??

Dragon Scale Consort Not available thru us. CD 2002

Courtly Dances of Western Europe 1450-1650 Not available thru us. CD 2000

Musica Subterranea
Album I
Album II - Cornucopia Not available thru us. CD 2000

Bedlam Abbey Not available thru us.

Note: Digital Bonus CDs contain the following as digital information in addition to audio music:

1200+ songs of sheet music on my web page (PDF format)
RealAudio music of all 10 cds [Marian & Ansteorran Dance Symposium]
Digital Data from the web (Letter of Dance back issues, etc etc)
Playford 1651 books and music from my web page (PDF format)

Dance Booklets

Inns of the Court dance booklet. Inns web page
and the offical Jouissance music web page

Courtly Dances of Western Europe, 1450-1650 dance booklet. NOT AVAILABLE THRU US. Courtly Dances booklet

Joy & Jealousy book. J&J web page

Eric's Dance Booklet (cheat sheets) PDF file

Greg's Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets web page

1651 Playford with music from a 1933 version PDF file

Del's Dance Book web page

Cecilia dance booklets. Excerpts from the Cecilia dance booklets

Notes on the Music

Thin / thick CD cases. As of March 2001 some CDs were made with slim cases. As of May 2001 every CD will be sold in "slim" cases to reduce shipping weight and cost. As of March 2001 I am also unable to make "CD Plus" CDs any more so the CDs with "Digital Bonus" can not be made properly; but must be made the old way; with the first track as digital data that is terribly loud if played in a CD player.
"1200+ songs of sheet music". Some CDs (Inns of Court, Ansteorran, MP3) have all of the freely distributable music that I could get. The music is mostly in PDF. All of this music is also available thru my Music Search Engine. CDs with this music also have a collection of material from the web. ie the back issues of The Letter of Dance and various manuscripts as well as 1st edition Playford with both text and music. Note: A computer with a CD ROM is required to access this information. A Real Audio player (included for Win 95) is needed to listen to the music.
- July 27, 1999 - Added 14 arrangements by Avatar (Al Cofrin)
MP3 CD! MP3 is a lossy audio compression scheme used in MPEG movies. To play MP3 sound files you need a computer and software. The music is compressed to about 1/10 the size and there is some loss of sound quality. I use 128 Kbit (stereo) compression rate and BladeEnc as the encoder.
Joy & Jealousy The music on this CD is all synthesized and accompanies the excellent dance book by the same name.
Carolingian Incomplete Arbeau by Giuseppe Casazza and Elspeth of Morven. Note: I've added 6 tracks of songs for which I've increased the number of repeats. All of the music is harpsicord with a drum beat intro.
Tape of Dance 1 All but 6 songs (2 versions of Hole in the Wall and 4 others) from ToD 1 were included on the Tape of Dance 2. The 4 "other songs" were replaced with better versions on the Tape of Dance 2.
Tape of Dance 2 My CD is missing some of the synth. Bassa dances. I've included a 4 repeat version of Ballo del Fiore and remade some of the synth. Bassa music on my computer.
Tape of Dance 4 There are no plans to release a cassette tape of this CD.
The Companions of St. Cecilia: Dance Musick I & II. This music (2 tape / CD set) was recorded in the early 80's and I was surprised how much of it was floating around on dance tapes without any mention of the source. The bransles have a slight slow-down before the music repeats. It was nice to find the two vocal tracks: Stingo and Heart's Ease on Volume I.
Del's Dance Disc This CD not only contains Del's excellent dance book and sheet music, midi files but also an assortment of synth dance music. I have added some songs to this CD as well as freely distributable sheet music from recent War's (ie Mistress Ellisif Flakkari, Alaric MacConnal, Lady Phaedria) as well as copies of the first edition of Playford The Dancing Master 1651.

Other sources of music and dance books

Samuel Piper's Play List & sheet music. This is a massive collection of arrangements by Lord Samuel Piper (Steven Hendricks) that will be added to this web site late in 2001.
Avatar's Early Period and Popular Dance Music book. His main web page has other books like Medieval Songs and Dances.
The Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society has a good collection of dance music. They have declined my offer to release their music on CD and/or distribute it in North America.
Note: Homage to Amor by Angene Feves. This is an excellent cassette. I am not allowed to sell a CD. Check my Homage to Amour web page for info. In May 1998 Angene Feves said she was releasing a CD.
The Waits of Southwark Renaissance Band have an excellent CD that is available from most SCA music merchants.
Rose and Nefr This is a favorite book and tape by Rose & Nefr Press that everyone knows. There is a new release of the book coming out with music re-recorded on a CD. Their tape of out of production and as of March 2002 the new CD has not been released. Rose & Neft can be emailed at: RosePress@aol.com

NOTE - Due to a very low volume of sales I'm no longer updating the prices in this table. Please contact me for exact shipping costs as these costs have not been updated since Jan. 2005

Shipping & prices for CDs shipped by Eric Praetzel in Canada.

Foreign & Canadian Prices (Cdn $): US Customers (US $, Jan 05 at $1.17 Conversion)

Foreign & Canadian Customers
$2.00 per slim CD (70g ea, thick cases are 100g)
$1.25 per CD without a case (20g ea)
+$3.75 royalty on Inns of Court CD
+$3.00 royalty on Mock Hobby Horse's CD
$10.00 for Heather Dale's Marian Ensemble CD
$18.00 for Heather Dale's Trial of Lancelot CD
$18.00 for Heather Dale's May Queen CD
$1.50 Inns of the Court booklet (unbound, 140g)
$13.00 Joy & Jealousy book (500g)
$11.00 Joy & Jealousy book without sheet music(450g) CD Prices (Jan 2005):
$1.85 per slim CD (70g ea)
$1.25 per CD without a case (20g ea)
+$3.00 royalty on Inns of Court CD
+$3.00 royalty on Mock Hobby Horse CD
$1.15 Inns of the Court booklet (unbound)
$11.25 Joy & Jealousy book
$9.50 Joy & Jealousy book without sheet music(450g)
$8.75 for Heather Dale's Marian Ensemble CD
$15.50 for Heather Dale's May Queen CD
$15.50 for Heather Dale's Trial of Lancelot CD

Canadian shipping
upto 200g: $2.15 [200g books]
upto 500g: $3.00 [500g books]
Foreign (airmail) shipping (UK, Australia, etc)
Note: Shipping prices can be reduced by not shipping the
CD case. ie 5 CDs is then 200g and not 500g
0-100g $3.50 [book]
100-200g $7.50 [packet]
upto 5 CDs: 500g $14.00 [packet]
Foreign Surface Mail
upto 5 CDs: 500g $7.25 [packet]
USA Airmail [3 to 5 days]
upto 100g: $2.00 [100g, oversized letter, 2 CDs no case]
upto 200g: $2.50 [200g, oversized letter, 2 CDs]
upto 500g: $5.25 [500g, oversized letter, 10 CDs no case]
upto 3 CDs: $4.75 [200g, packet]
upto 5 CDs: $6.50 [500g, packet]
USA Surface mail [5 to 10 days]
upto 10 CDs: $7.25 [1kg, packet]

Notes: A "slim CD case" is 1/2 the thickness of a normal case.
A CD without a case weights only 20g.
A "book" is paper upto 15 * 10.5 * 3/4 inches.
A packet is a small cardboard box < 60cm in all dim, < 90 in the sum of all dim.
A parcel is a cardboard box that is larger than a packet.

SCA Dance Books - General / Additional Info

My dance booklet PDF (ver 1.3, April 6, 1999) is available on my SCA music web page. This book is a collection of many dances in short hand (ie very brief descriptions) and is based upon the Cynnabar dance booklet.

Joy & Jealousy The 2nd printing was released at Pennsic in 1998. This book is now being printed by myself and Greg Lindahl. Check my Joy & Jealousy web page

Inns of the Court I print these as required. Some info about this booklet can be found on my Inns of the Court music web page Basically there are 10 dances (one dance per page) and an 8 page concordance. Lastly there is a 14 page introduction with information about the manuscripts, dancing at that point in history and how the dances were reconstructed. Greg Lindahl has put the concordance and introduction on his web page.

Courtly Dances of Western Europe, 1450-1650 booklet
Del's Dance Book This dance book is on Del's Dance Disc. It is something like 570 pages and is in HTML format (on the web) and also in a Word document in one of the directories. It is an excellent reference to browse.

Greg Lindahl's Dance Book The book can be found on The SCA Music and Dance webpage. In particular you can find it under the Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets link

The Letter of Dance The LOD is now available on the web. It has many articles on dance and is the companion for the Tapes of Dance 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Playford - The Dancing Master (1651) This is available in many places. I have my own condensed version and Greg's web page points to other versions.

I started selling SCA music CDs on May 1 1998 after launching the project Fri Nov 28, 1997. Things petered out around 2006 as CDs became less popular and people used the MP3 available or download.

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Dance CDs Sources
USA	Click here to email Greg (lindahl@pbm.com) Greg sells a set of CDs which includes many of the CDs on this web page. He does not handle mail order.
Canada & Foreign	As of 2007 I don't sell CDs any more. It seems that CD players tend to be very sensitive to CDs made by burners. As I sell the CDs at cost - every time I run into this I loose money. Some buyers have had severe problems, and CD sales are so low, that I no longer sell CDs. The MP3's are available.
Australia	Del has made a seperate bunch of CDs using the music on this web page. Click here to email Del (del@sca.org.au)

Synth. Music	MP3 Music	# of songs	Original Music Source
Ellisif's sheet music and Joy & Jealousy book & music	MP3	24 + 9 slowed 72:13	synthesized on CD
~~Del's Dance Disc~~ Out of Print! I will make copies on special request only.	MP3's not available	29 tracks 67:53 Digital Bonus	synthesized on CD
Early Dance Music	MP3's not available	ONLY 28 tracks 72:29 (Compiled from a 2 CD set)	synthesized on CD

Compilation CDs	# of songs	Music source
~~MP3 CD~~ of 12 of the 13 CDs This CD is made by special order only. Inns of Court, Marian Ensemble and Mock Hobby Horse not included	>225 tracks 8+ hours 1200+ songs of sheet music	The music is from the above CDs. Not all CDs are included. Email Eric for details.

Non-Dance CDs	# of songs	Music source
Heather Dale's - May Queen	11 tracks	CD 2004
Heather Dale's - The Trial of Lancelot and Her Trial of Lancelot web page with sound clips	9 tracks 39:08	CD 1999
Mock Hobby Horse	25 tracks 60:49	2 tapes 1998

Good SCA Dance Music which we don't sell
Jouyessance - Stowe's Dance band	Music coming soon!	??	2004??
Dragon Scale Consort	Not available thru us.	CD	2002
Courtly Dances of Western Europe 1450-1650	Not available thru us.	CD	2000
Musica Subterranea Album I Album II - Cornucopia	Not available thru us.	CD	2000
Bedlam Abbey	Not available thru us.

Dance Booklets
Inns of the Court dance booklet.		Inns web page and the offical Jouissance music web page
Courtly Dances of Western Europe, 1450-1650 dance booklet. NOT AVAILABLE THRU US.		Courtly Dances booklet
Joy & Jealousy book.		J&J web page
Eric's Dance Booklet (cheat sheets)		PDF file
Greg's Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets		web page
1651 Playford with music from a 1933 version		PDF file
Del's Dance Book		web page
Cecilia dance booklets.		Excerpts from the Cecilia dance booklets

Shipping & prices for CDs shipped by Eric Praetzel in Canada.
Foreign & Canadian Prices (Cdn $):	US Customers (US $, Jan 05 at $1.17 Conversion)
Foreign & Canadian Customers $2.00 per slim CD (70g ea, thick cases are 100g) $1.25 per CD without a case (20g ea) +$3.75 royalty on Inns of Court CD +$3.00 royalty on Mock Hobby Horse's CD $10.00 for Heather Dale's Marian Ensemble CD $18.00 for Heather Dale's Trial of Lancelot CD $18.00 for Heather Dale's May Queen CD $1.50 Inns of the Court booklet (unbound, 140g) $13.00 Joy & Jealousy book (500g) $11.00 Joy & Jealousy book without sheet music(450g)	CD Prices (Jan 2005): $1.85 per slim CD (70g ea) $1.25 per CD without a case (20g ea) +$3.00 royalty on Inns of Court CD +$3.00 royalty on Mock Hobby Horse CD $1.15 Inns of the Court booklet (unbound) $11.25 Joy & Jealousy book $9.50 Joy & Jealousy book without sheet music(450g) $8.75 for Heather Dale's Marian Ensemble CD $15.50 for Heather Dale's May Queen CD $15.50 for Heather Dale's Trial of Lancelot CD
Canadian shipping upto 200g: $2.15 [200g books] upto 500g: $3.00 [500g books] Foreign (airmail) shipping (UK, Australia, etc) Note: Shipping prices can be reduced by not shipping the CD case. ie 5 CDs is then 200g and not 500g 0-100g $3.50 [book] 100-200g $7.50 [packet] upto 5 CDs: 500g $14.00 [packet] Foreign Surface Mail upto 5 CDs: 500g $7.25 [packet]	USA Airmail [3 to 5 days] upto 100g: $2.00 [100g, oversized letter, 2 CDs no case] upto 200g: $2.50 [200g, oversized letter, 2 CDs] upto 500g: $5.25 [500g, oversized letter, 10 CDs no case] upto 3 CDs: $4.75 [200g, packet] upto 5 CDs: $6.50 [500g, packet] USA Surface mail [5 to 10 days] upto 10 CDs: $7.25 [1kg, packet]
Notes: A "slim CD case" is 1/2 the thickness of a normal case. A CD without a case weights only 20g. A "book" is paper upto 15 * 10.5 * 3/4 inches. A packet is a small cardboard box < 60cm in all dim, < 90 in the sum of all dim. A parcel is a cardboard box that is larger than a packet.