25 March is the Feast of the Annunciation aka #LadyDay, so here's a #17thCentury #countrydance for today.
The melody first appears in Playford's #DancingMaster in 1687, with choreography being added in the 1698 edition.
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Dances of the French Courts: 16th century Dance, Music and Songs from France, by The Historical Dance Society 31 track album

Recorded for the Historical Dance Society as part of their CD of French Court Dance thehistoricaldancesociety1.bandcamp.com/album/dances...

#cd #dancemusic #historicaldancesociety #historicaldance #earlydance

Pierre Guédron: La #Bourree. A #17thCentury #dance from the French Court.
A #pastoral dialogue
From Le recueil des plus belles chansons, Jacques Mangeant, 1615
The melody is similar to the English #CountryDance, Parson's Farewell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZr...
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Maltese Bransle: A #sixteenthcentury #dance from Arbeau's #Orchesography, 1589
Image: Turkish men and women in Codice de Trajes, c1547
National Library of Spain

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKY...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlydance #renaissance #16thCentury #16thC #earlymusicensemble #earlymodernsky

First page of a concert program: “Boston Early Music Festival PRESENTS TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & JUILLIARD 415 ROBERT MEALY, Director CAROLINE COPELAND & JULIAN DONAHUE, dancers & choreographers RAMEAU AND THE ART OF DANCE JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683-1764) Overture from Zoroastre (1749) Dances from Castor et Pollux (1737) Déscente de Venus et de Mars Premier Air pour les Athlètes Air très gai pour les Athlètes Air pour les Ombres heureuses (for the happy shades! Gavotte pour trois Ombres heureuses Loure pour trois Ombres heureuses Passepieds / & Il pour deux Ombres heureuses Chaconne pour les Génies Overture from Les fêtes de Polymnie (1745) Dances from Dardanus (1739) Air gracieux pour les Plaisirs et la Jalousie [for the Pleasures and Jealousy] Air vive pour les Plaisirs Air gracieux pour les Peuples de différents nations Menuets / & /| pour les Phrygiens et Phrygiennes Tambourins / & Il pour les Peuples de différents nations Chaçonne pour les Jeux et les Plaisirs [for the Games and the Pleasures] Caroline Copeland, choreographer * INTERMISSION — “

Second page of a concert program: “Overture from Zaïs (1748) Dances from Les Indes galantes (1735) Menuets / & Il pour la suite d'Hébé [for the followers of Hebe! Musette pour la suite d'Hébé Rigaudons / & Il pour les Matelots provençaux [forthe Provençal sailors] Orage [Storm] Tambourins / & Il pour les Matelots provençaux Chaconne Overture from Naïs (1749) Dances from Naïs (1749) Gavotte pour les Zéphyres Air gai pour les Divinités de la mer [for the Deities of the sea] Sarabande pour les Dieux et Déesses de la mer [for the Gods and Goddesses of the sea] Menuets / & Il pour les Divinités de la mer déguisées [for the Deities of the sea in disguise] Tambourins / & Il pour les Divinités de la mer déguisées Entrée des lutteurs [Entrance of the wrestlers] - Chaconne - Air de triomphe Julian Donahue, choreographer SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2026 AT 3PM First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts”

Taking a break from doomscrolling. #EarlyMusic 🎶 #EarlyDance 🩰

#ThrowbackThursday:
Playing for #Tudor dancing at the #BritishMuseum about 15 years ago

#earlymusic #musicianlife #musicianslife #tudors #historicalinterpretation #heritage #heritageinterpretation #historicaldance #earlydance

It's #Purim today, so here is a #15thCentury #illumination showing people dancing to the #pipeandtabor.
And feasting.
From #Maimonides’ #Mishneh #Torah, Northern Italy, c1470.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
#earlymusic #judaica #otd #illuminatedmanuscript #earlydance

Lovely day and lovely people #masque #historicaldance #earlydance #earlymusic #jacobeancourt #georgevilliers

Dance notation for the first page of "Aimable Vainqueur"

Any #earlydance #dancehistory #baroquedance peeps out here in the skies? I don't promise to post much dance content myself but would follow anybody who does.

At Shugborough Hall in 2007
#ThrowbackThursday
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#heritage #earlydance #earlymusicensemble

It's Throwback Thursday again, so here's a picture of us playing for dancing in MIddle Temple Hall in 2011.
#ThrowbackThursday
#throwbackthursdays
#middletemple
#middletemplehall
#earlydance
#playford
#17thCentury
#historicaldance
#earlymusic
#musicianlife
#musicianslife

The #May Day Country Mirth - a late #17thCentury #song for today. From the Douce Ballads, Bodleian Library. With a #woodcut showing a piper and #fiddler playing by a #maypole while people dance around them.

#otd #mayday #earlymusic #earlymodern #violin #onthiday
#dance #earlydance #maypoledance

Something for International Dance Day:
The Bears' Dance from Ben Jonson's Masque of Augurs, 1622
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2On...

#internationaldanceday #otd #onthisday #earlydance #earlymusic

This has just arrived in the post.
Am looking forward to reading it :)

#earlymusic #earlymodern #17thC #Tudor #historicaldance #earlydance #16thC #folk #tudors #morris #history