Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675
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Almain Double
Anthony Holborne
Author_Ian Payne
Basse Danse
Black Almain
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Cecilia Almain
choreography reconstruction
Compound Duple Time
Country Dance Style
double
Double Backe
Double Forwards
Double Round
Duple Time
early modern performance practice
English Dancing Master
English Renaissance music
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Essex's Measure
Essex’s Measure
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Functional Dance Music
historical dance research
Inns of Court studies
Lay Ton
Lord Hay's Masque
Lord Hay’s Masque
Masque Dance
Melusine Wood
MS Rawlinson Poet
Playford English Dancing Master
Quadran Pavan
Queens Almain
seventeenth-century British dance sources
Simple Duple Time
Single Backe
Soe End
Product details
- ISBN 9780859679657
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard.  Part One centres on the manuscript sources which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography. In viewing the Almain within its broader historical context, Ian Payne throws new light on the dance, arguing that, together with the ’measures’ which accompany it in the choreographies, it owes an even greater debt to the English country dance than has hitherto been acknowledged, a popular style that received its fullest expression in Playford's English Dancing Master of 1651.  The second part of the book focuses on the dances themselves. The steps are described in detail and reconstructions provided for the nine Almains and some of the other measures included in the manuscripts. Part Three comprises a complete critical edition of the manuscripts.  These easily performable versions of the dances will be an invaluable aid to those wishing to learn the dances, reconstruct them for stagings of Shakespeare's plays or Jacobean masques, and for dance historians.
Dr Ian Payne is an Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University, UK. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a specialist in Early English music, he has published many articles on and edited numerous editions of music from this period.
