[SCA-Dance] Spanish or Iberian dances?
christopher532941
c_elmes at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 4 08:35:20 EDT 2009
> The LLibre Vermell of Montserrat, from a little later and
> rather similar in style, also has some very danceable tunes and I think
> even refers to some of the songs as dances. But unfortunately that seem to
> be all we have to go on (till the later sources already mentioned by
> others).
>
> Caitlin
>
Specifically the songs from the Llibre Vermell described as dances are:
Stella spelendens,
Los sept goyts,
Cuncti simus,
Polorum regina.
Stella splendens has a rubric with 'ad tripudium rotundum'; the
other three have 'a ball redon' (in Catalan). Both phrases mean
'(to) a round dance'.
Otto
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Gaita Medieval Music
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