Renaissance Dances for the Small Harp

This book has 21 Stately Court Dances from lute and other instrumental literature in a lovely spiral bound book.

Renaissance Dances for the Small Harp, by Deborah Dahl Shanks, is arranged for smaller harps, later beginner to intermediate levels in the key of C. The Renaissance era (1400-1600) was a period of expansive growth of the arts based upon humanistic and secular ideas of fun, frolic, dance and song from all around the world. The dances contained in this collection come from an instrumental tradition of music for lute, vilheula, and other ensembles including winds and early keyboard.

IELMAN SUSATO DANCES

Pas Et Medio
Three Dances
JOHN DOWLAND DANCES Tarleton's Riserrectione
Mrs. Winter's Jump
Mrs. White's Nothing
Mrs. Nichols Alman
Almain

ANONYMOUS LUTE & KEYBOARD DANCES
    ITALIAN:
Passo e Mezzo
    FRENCH:
Galliarde
Galliard One
Galliard Two
    GERMAN:
Allemande I
Allemande II
German Dance

DANCES BY VARIOUS CONTINENTAL COMPOSERS
Italian Dance by Hans Neusidler [German]
Il Bianco Fiore by Cesare Negri [Italian]
Pavan I by Luys Milan [Spanish]
Pavan III by Luys Milan [Spanish]
Canarie by Joachim van den Hove [Spanish]
Volte by Jean Babtiste Besard [French] Branle by Jean Babtiste Besard [French]