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Renaissance Dance Videos

• Il Ballarino: the Art of Renaissance Dance Instructional video by Julia Sutton. VHS/NTSC format.
• How to Dance Through Time Vol. III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance (2000) Instructional video by Carol Teten. VHS/NTSC format.
• DAncetime! 500 Years of Social Dance Vol 1: 15th-19th Centuries A survey of dance forms including 15th-1th century Italian. VHS/NTSC format.
• Early Dance Part I: From the Greeks to the Renaissance Directed by Hal Bergsohn. VHS/NTSC format.

Renaissance Dance Books

Dance Treatises

• Orchesography by Thoinot Arbeau. Translated and annotated by Mary S. Evans and Julia Sutton.
• Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame by Fabritio Caroso, Julia Sutton (Translator), F. Maria Walker
• Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music : Twelve Transcribed Italian Treatises and Collections in the Tradition of Domenico Da Piacenza: Treatises and music by A. William Smith (Editor) Vol. 1
• Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music : Twelve Transcribed Italian Treatises and Collections in the Tradition of Domenico Da Piacenza by A. William Smith (Translator) Vol 2
• De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii = on the Practice or Art of Dancing by Guglielmo Ebreo, Barbara Sparti (Editor) Guglielmo Ebreo

History

• The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England by Skiles Howard
• The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750 : Studies in Early English Drama by John Forrest

Reconstructions

• Renaissance Dances: For Dancers Young and Old by Isabel McNeill Carley. With CD.

Music Theory and Practice

• Medieval and Renaissance Music : A Performer's Guide by Timothy McGee. A practical guide to all aspects of performing early music.

Renaissance Dance Music

• Cesare Negri: Le Gratie d'Amore / Ensemble La Follia
• Alta Danza - Dance Music from 15th Century Italy
• Arbeau: Orchesographie / The New York Renaissance Band
• Calliope Dances - A Renaissance Revel / Calliope
• Dance! / Renaissonics Renaissance Dance Band
• Musiques À Danser de la Renaissance Française / Compagnie Maitre Guillaume
• Il Ballarino, Italian Dances c. 1600 / The Broadside Band
• Music in the Age of Leonardo da Vinci / Ensemble Claude-Gervaise

• Cesare Negri
• Caroso
• Thoinot Arbeau
• Domenico da Piacenza
• Guglielmo Ebreo
• Cornazano

Renaissance Culture, Re-enactment

• The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England: From 1485-1649 by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Early Dance of Other Periods

• Medieval Instrumental Dances by Timothy McGee. Transcriptions and notes on all known or suspected dance tunes from before 1430. Includes discussion of performance practice.
• Dance and Music of Court and Theater : Selected Writings of Wendy Hilton (Dance & Music Series, No 10) by Wendy Hilton. The Baroque dance bible! Includes the masterwork Dance of Court & Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725, updated and expanded versions of two articles originally published Early Music, and a ballroom dance a deux in Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, as well as a comprehensive updated bibliography.
• How to Dance Through Time Vol. IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance (2000) Instructional video by Carol Teten. VHS/NTSC format.
• Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries. (Dance and Music No. 2). By Maurice Esses.
  • Vol 1: Musical Transcriptions
  • Vol 2: History and Background, Music and Dance
  • Vol 3: The Notes in Spanish and Other Languages from the Sources
• Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing by Gennaro Magri, Mary Skeaping (Translator)
• Ancient Egyptian Dances by Irena Lexova, Diane Bergman (Introduction), K. Haltmar (Translator)

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