[SCA-Dance] Dance music in Assassin's Creed?

[David Learmonth]

Yeah, I enjoyed the dancing in Pirates.  :)

Although I found it rather amusing in that game that the "better" / "more
attractive" women to get as your bride, seemed to be directly correlated to
the size of their bosom.  :P

Darius


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The game where dance skill is crucial is Sid Meier's Pirates.  Your
> character needs to impress various governors' daughters by dancing with
> them at balls. You have to match her moves to succeed through increasingly
> complex dances. It's still more a DDR reaction speed check than any real
> choreography, but at least the game acknowledges the importance of dancing
> skill for a would-be gentleman.
>
> --Urraca
>
>
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>  From: David Learmonth <david.a.learmonth at gmail.com>
> To: Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com>
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>
> Thanks everyone!  Interesting.  Cute dance.  But what is the age of the
> dance?  I found one line from searching:
> "This dance is from Charles Bolton, More of the Same,1986. Tune (name not
> given) by Phalèse, 1580"
>
> So is it purely a modern choreography to a nice tune they found?
>
>
> Hmm, I was hoping that there would be a few more than just 2 dance tunes
> in the game.  (this one, and Salterello II)  Seems like a missed
> opportunity.  :)
>
> Yeah, these games obviously need our skills as dance reconstructors /
> choreographers.  :)
>
>
> Darius
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Mary Railing <mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you! I knew I had it somewhere. It's on the old Ulsamer Collegium
> album Trepsichore: Tanzmusik der Renaissance.
> >
> >--Urraca
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> > From: Christine Robb <cedar at conundrums.ca>
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> >Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:32 PM
> >
> >Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Dance music in Assassin's Creed?
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:09:07AM -0700, Mary Railing wrote:
> >> The original name is not Ashford Anniversary. It's probably
> >> something like Ronde [number] or Branle [number].
> >
> >Ungaresca, from the Antwerper Tanzbuch by Phalèse, 1583.
> >
> >
> >Christine
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