[SCA-Dance] Dance Term Question

[Alex Clark]

The old Measures were a suite of eight dances. Various other dances are 
mentioned or described in the same sources, but are not in most or all 
of them, and are not on the lists of old Measures.

Their identifying information is given as follows in Royal College of 
Music MS 1119 (from Wilson's transcription in "Dancing in the Inns of 
Court", /Historical Dance/ vol. 2 no. 5 1986/7) is:

1st
Quadrian pavin.

2d
Treky Lorny.

3d
Earle of Essex Measure.

4th
Tentarnayle.

5th
The old Almane
a round measure.
5th
The old Almayne.

6th
The Queens Almayne
a round measure.

7th
Sissilea Almayne.

8th
The Black Amaine.
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HTH.

-- 
Henry/Alex

John Farmer wrote:
> During Master Niccolo's dance class last weekend, he used a phrase that I was not familiar with, and I kept forgetting to ask what exactly it meant when I was talking to him.  He mentioned Old Measures.  What dances qualify as an Old Measure, and what makes it one?
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