Good Music / Dance CDs
- On the Banks of Helicon: Early Music of Scotland
The Baltimore Consort, Dorian DOR-90139
Has a lovely, sprightly version of Scotch Cap.
- Alta Danza online purchase and info
- Dorian DOR-90262
Folie Douce (Sweet Folly) Renaissance Improvisations.
Ensemble Doulce M^)moire.
Suites from Praetorius, Haussmann, Schein. Improvisations & diminutions
on Spagnoletta, Ballo del Gran Duca, Pavana d'Espagna, etc.
- Stradivarius 33479
Chenonceau. Music at the Court of Caterina de'Medici.
Accademia del Ricercare. Pietro Busca
- Erato 3984-21656-2
Douce Beaut^). Pierre Gu^)dron et l'air du Cour.
The Boston Camerata. Joel Cohen
- Harmonia Mundi HMU 907194
Le Jardin de M^)lodies. 16th-century French Dances & Chansons.
Attaingnant, Le Roy, Phal^(se
The King's Noyse
- Symphonia SY 96153
Pierre Gu^)dron. Soupirs Mesl^)s d'Amour. Airs de cour, entrees de ballet
Claudine Ansermet, soprano. Paolo Cherchi, lute
- Dorian DOR- 90252
The Ladyes Delight. Entertainment Music of Elizabethan England
The Baltimore Consort
Other sources of dance music (tapes) include:
Contact CDSS thru email sales@cdss.org
- Hit & Misse. Passamezzo Players.
Dancecraft. DC 123324. Cassette. From CDSS. (May not be available anymore)
- Popular English Country Dances of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Claremont
Country Dance Band. CDSS-7, 1979.
- Orange & Blue The English Dancing Master, vols. 1, 2 & 4
- The Ranchers The English Dancing Master, vol. 3
[You may want to argue with the tempos occasionally, but these EFDSS tapes
are immensely danceable.]
- Assembly Players Playford from the New World (contemporary ECDs from USA)
- Claremont CD Band Popular English Dances of the 17th & 18th Centuries*
- Barron, Leber & Ward Step Stately*
[*Cassette reissues of old CDSS LPs. Two other great albums, By Popular
Demand & Juice of Barley, have not yet been reissued on tape, but are still
available - on sale, even! - on LPs.]
Videos of dancing
- Il Ballarino: The Art of Renaissance Dance, 1990,
directed by Julia Sutton and Johannes Holub, narrated by Julia
Sutton. Dance Horizons Video, Princeton Book Company, PO Box 57,
Pennington, NJ 08534. Videocassette (VHS), 33min. ISBN
0-87127-170-2, $39.95 US. Only covers Caroso's dances.
- Le Gratie D'amore, European Court Dance of the Late Renaissance, Filmocentro; Ta
ller de Danzas Antiguas, y Charles
Garth y Elizabeth Aldrich. New York: Historical Dance Foundation,
1992 (spanish with english subtitles). HDF's phone # is (212)
255-5545. Includes pavannes, bransles, galliards, and balli. 30
minutes; costs around $30 US.
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