For 4 instruments. Complete edition of the unique collection of dances in MS Mus.1503h of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. Score only.
From the 1520s Italian dance music enjoyed a vogue that spread to all points of the cultural compass – from Denmark to Spain, England to Poland – and continued unchecked to the end of the century. Some individual dances, indeed, persisting well into the seventeenth century. The popularity of these pavane, galliarde and saltarelli is confirmed by their inclusion in virtually every sixteenth century printed and manuscript collection of lute music, native and foreign. Ensemble settings of Italian dance music are rare and are almost unknown in Italian sources, with the exception of one manuscript and two published collections of four part dances,
Opera nova de balli ↣ (Francesco Bendusi / Venice 1553) and Il primo libra de balli (Giorgio Mainerio / Venice 1578).
