TY - BOOK ID - 77900385 TI - Medieval instrumental dances PY - 1989 SN - 0253013143 9780253013149 0253333539 9780253333537 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Dance music KW - Instrumental music KW - Music UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900385 AB - In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event-for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection presents compositions that are known or suspected to be instrumental dances from before ca. 1420. The forty-seven pieces vary in length and style and come from French, Italian, English, and Czech sources. Timothy McGee relates medieval dances to the descriptions found in literary, theoretical, an ER -