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

[Mary Railing]

The original name is not Ashford Anniversary. It's probably something like Ronde [number] or Branle [number]. The tune sounds familiar to me, but I would have to spend some time skimming through a bunch of vaguely titled dances on various albums to have any chance of locating it.

I'm no gamer, but my husband showed me a dance scene in Assassin's Creed to ask if it was period. If I recall correctly, it was a group of couples taking right hands and circling clockwise, then taking left hands and circling counter-clockwise-- nothing wrong with that, as far as it went, and a suitable background to the real action, but not very useful for a real dance.

--Urraca

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 From: Monique Rio <mrio at umich.edu>
To: David Learmonth <david.a.learmonth at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] Dance music in Assassin's Creed?
 
One of them is Salterello II. The other is Ashford Anniversary by
Phalese from 1580.  (ECD)

Here's Ashford Anniversary:
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.larkcamp.com/LarkLibrary/English/MickieZekley/MEEnglishDanceTunes/0060

-Jadzia


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:33 PM, David Learmonth
<david.a.learmonth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.  Quick question, if I may.  I hear that in the Assassin's Creed games
> (in particular, #2, which is set in Renaissance Italy), that they use some
> period tunes possibly?
>
> Does anyone have a list of which period tunes (in particular, dance tunes,
> even if they are obscure for our common repertoire), that they use in any
> of these games?  Or if not a list, does anyone know of any dance tunes
> confirmed?  (and if you happen to know of any links to youtube videos of
> the game play with the music, even better).
>
> Not critical, but figured someone might have made such notes.  I'm helping
> with some "medieval dance" at a ball at an anime convention in May, that
> happens to have a video game theme this year, so I'm looking for good
> crossovers.  Any other suggestions would be good too!  I know we've danced
> some dances to modern music in the past, so I may use a few of those.  And
> of course, given the genre and the mix, Korobushka is a must  (Tetris
> music).  Don't worry, there is no specific requirement for periodness, nor
> are we telling people that these are all period dances.  (I do tend to try
> to let people know briefly where these dances are coming from).
>
> Thanks!
> Darius
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