Renaissance Dance Sources Home

• Dance

  • Primary Dance Sources. Primary sources of information on dance in Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, and a few helpful secondary works.

  • PnD - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, f. Ital. 972: Two Suggestions on the Transcription. By Joseph Casazza.

  • Practise for Dauncinge: Some Almans and a Pavan England 1570-1650, A Manual for Dance Instruction, In which is explained the performance of a number of dances popular in the London Inns of Court in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with music in four parts, by Patri J. Pugliese & Joseph Casazza

• Music

  • Jean d'Estree's Books of Dance Music. Transcribed by Joseph Casazza.

  • Music for the Dances in Arbeau's Orchesographie. Transcribed, set, or composed by Joseph Casazza.

  • Music for the Old Measures. Transcribed, set, or composed by Joseph Casazza.

  • Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard's first cittern book of 1565. Edited by Joseph Casazza and Christopher Stetson.

• References to and Reviews of My Work by Other Authors

  • Practice for Dauncinge reference in Greta Mary Hair, Robyn E. Smith, eds., Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale: Sacred and Secular Music c.900-c.1600 

  • Practice for Dauncinge reference in Jeffery T. Kite-Powell, A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

  • Practice for Dauncinge reference in Arthur F Kinney, Thomas W Copeland, eds., Tudor England: An Encyclopedia

  • Practice for Dauncinge reference in Barbara Ravelhofer, The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music 

  • Practice for Dauncinge reference in John Ward, "Apropos 'The olde Measures'" in REED Newsletter,Vol 18, No 1 (1993) 

  • Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard's first cittern book if 1565 reference in "Modern Editions and Facsimiles of Music for Cittern"

See Joseph Casazza's Author Page on Amazon.com.

Last Update: February 11, 2023