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Moderne's Basse Dance Measures |
All of the Burgundian works call for a very rigid style of "regular" basse dances. These regular dances are made up of measures which are classified as "small", "medium", or "large", as well as "perfect" or "imperfect". Moderne gives us a fairly contradictory and illogical table, as follows: |
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Perfect |
Imperfect |
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Small |
Rv Br SS D R Br |
Rv Br SS D SS R Br |
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Medium |
Rv Br SS DDD SS R Br |
Rv Br SS D R Br |
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Large |
Rv Br SS DDD SS R D SS R Br |
Rv Br SS DDD R D R Br |
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Brussels Manuscript Basse Dance Measures |
Brussels and Tholouze have a different set of measures, these are much more logical: |
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Very Perfect |
Perfect |
Imperfect |
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Small |
SS D SS RRR Br |
SS D SS R Br |
SS D RRR Br |
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Medium |
SS DDD SS RRR Br |
SS DDD SS R Br |
SS DDD RRR Br |
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Large |
SS DDDDD SS RRR Br |
SS DDDDD SS R Br |
SS DDDDD RRR Br |
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Note that the Brussels Manuscript does not explicitly name the measures as "small", "medium" or "large", although it is obvious from the choreographies that there are measures with one, three, or five double steps, and so I have categorised them this way myself. The regular dances, which can be performed using measures from these tables) form about three quarters of the dances in these books. The rest of the dances in the books are irregular basse dances, as well as "basse dance mineur", which diverge from the standard "formula" (and are more interesting to dance). |
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