Belriguardo

Belriguardo
For a man and a woman

In the style of Domenico

Music has:
12 tempi saltarelli (Domenico actually gives 16 bars of music, but only steps for 12. Since the recording we have has 12 bars I have used a 12 bar interpretation)
24 tempi bassadanza

Saltarelli:
1 -- Wait
2-12 -- 11 saltarelli (starting right)

Bassadanza:
1-4 -- 4 doppi (L,R,L,R)
5-6 -- 3 contrapassi L
7 -- 2 sempi (R,L)
8-9 -- 3 contrapassi R
10-11 -- 2 Riprese (L,R)
12-13 -- 2 saltarelli (L,R) (these are slow)
14-15 -- 2 Riprese (L,R)
16-19 -- Repeat saltarelli and riprese
20-- 2 sempi (L,R)
21 -- Doppio L
22 -- Ripresa R
23 -- 2 Continentie (L,R)
24 -- Riverentia L

The end.
(repeat? This dance doesn't specify this but many others do, and most recordings of music go through twice - do 12 saltarelli at the beginning, starting with the left foot)

Marchesana

Marchesana
For a man and a woman

In the style of Domenico
Music has:
12 tempi quadernaria
13 tempi bassa danza (Domenico states 12.5 bars, but gives music for 13)
6 tempi quadernaria

Quadernaria:
1-8 -- 8 saltarelli (last two saltarelli are a different tune)

9-10 -- Man goes away with 3 steps (L,R,L), and a saltarello R
11-12 -- Woman catches up with the same steps

Bassadanza:
1-2 -- 2 Riprese
3-4 -- Take right hands and do 2 sempi (L,R), and a doppio L
5 -- change hands, ripresa R
6-7 -- 2 Sempi (L,R), Doppio L
8 -- Drop hands ard ripresa R (Domenico has one sempio here - making half a bar. Other manuscripts give a ripresa, so I have used this to fill the 13 bars of music)
9-10 -- 2 Doppii away from each other (L,R), turning to face at the end
11-12 -- 2 Riprese (L,R)
13 -- 2 Continenzi (L,R)

Quadernaria:
1 -- Man movimento, Woman respond with a movimento
2 -- Doppio L towards each other
3 -- Woman movimento, Man respond with a movimento
4 -- Doppio L towards each other
5 -- Doppio L, circling each other
6 -- Leap onto the right foot, ending up side by side as at the beginning of the dance

The end (repeat, woman leading? This dance doesn't specify this but many others do, and most recordings of music go through twice)

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Date: Saturday September 6. Collegium: 10-5 Ball: begins 7pm
Location: Bishopdale Community Centre, Upstairs (above the library), Bishopdale Shopping Mall, 129 Farrington Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch.
Cost: $10 member / $12 non-member for ball or collegium, $16 member/$18 non-member for both
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Bookings for the ball close Saturday August 30. Bookings may be required for some classes at the Collegium; details closer to the event
Please make cheques payable to "SCA - Barony of Southron Gaard"

The collegium will offer a range of classes, details forthcoming closer to the time. Please contact Lady Mathilda de Villiers (charlene@paradise.gen.nz) if you would like to lead a workshop, class, or discussion group at Collegium. The more the merrier! The collegium will be self catered but there are many options for eating in the adjacent mall.

The ball will include the Baronial quarter day court and a supper prepared by THL Taddea di Giorgio Mellini. The ball itself will consist of bassa dances and balli from the manuscripts of Domenico and Cornazano. These dances will be taught at the Baronial dance practices on Tuesdays, starting 7:30 pm, in the coming weeks. No experience is necessary! You can also check out reconstructions of the dances we have taught so far on this website.

Bus routes 10, 14 and 15 go to the mall and the Orbiter passes nearby.

Gelosia

Gelosia
For three women and three men - three couples, spaced three steps apart

In the style of Domenico
Music has:
26 tempi quadernaria

1-8 -- Eight saltarelli (text gives six saltarelli, music has appropriate repeats for eight and other versions have varying numbers)

9-10 -- 1st man 3 contrapassi L around in front of his partner to touch the hand of the 2nd woman
11 -- 1st man Riverentia L, 2nd man saltarello R to be next to 1st woman
12-13 -- 1st man 3 contrapassi in front of 2nd woman to be next to 3rd woman, touching hands
14 -- 1st man riverentia L, 3nd man saltarello R to be next to 2nd woman.
15 -- 1st man 1st man goes behind 3rd woman to be on her left with a saltarello

16-19 -- 8 Piva
20 -- 1st man and 1st woman turn on the spot
21 -- 2nd man and 2nd woman the same
22 -- 3rd man and 3rd woman the same
23-24 -- Partners take right hands, 3 sempi (R,L,R) to change places
25-26 -- Change hands, 3 sempi (L,R,L) back to place

Repeat from the beginning, all men have changed places. Dance 3 times in total to get back to original places.

Belfiore

Belfiore
For two men and a woman in a line (M-W-M)

In the style of Domenico
Music has:15 tempi quadernaria
3 tempi piva
3 tempi quadernaria
15 tempi piva

Quadernaria:
1-12 -- 12 piva

13 -- 1st man doppio L away from the other two
14 -- Woman doppio L to catch up
15 -- Last man doppio L to catch up

Piva:
1 -- 1st man movimento
2 -- Woman movimento
3 -- Last man moviemento

Quadernaria:
1 -- 1st man turn around to the left with 4 small sempi (360°)
2 -- Woman do the same
3 -- Last man do the same

Piva:
1-3 -- 1st man 3 piva to the other end of the line (anti-clockwise)
4-6 -- Woman do the same
7-9 -- Last man do the same

10-11 -- First man doppio R to other end of line (anti-clockwise), at the same time last man doppio L to first man's place

12-15 -- Woman circle around last man (or man to her right) anti-clockwise, then pass between the men and up to the other end with 4 piva

Mignotta Vecchia

Mignotta Vecchia
Basse dance for a line of couples

Music has:
21 bars of bassadanze
Music can be found here

1 -- 2 continentie (L,R)
2 -- 2 sempi (L,R)
3-4 -- 2 doppi (L,R)
5 -- 2 continentie (L,R)

6-7 -- 2 doppi (L,R)
8 -- 2 continentie (L,R)
9 -- Ripresa L
10 -- 2 sempi (R,L), turning to the right to face the other way
11 -- Doppio R
12-13 -- Ripresa (L,R), turning to face the other way

14 -- 2 continentie (L,R)
15-16 -- 2 saltarelli (L,R)
17 -- Doppio L
18 -- Ripresa R
19-20 -- 2 doppi (L,R)
21 -- Riverentia L

Prigioniera

Prigioniera
For a man and a woman

In the style of Domenico:
Music has:
25 tempi bassadanza
8 tempi quadernaria
4 tempi saltarello

Bassadanza:
1 -- 2 continentie (L,R)
2-3.5 -- 3 sempi (L,R,L)
3.5-4.5 -- Doppio R
4.5 -- Riverentia L
5.5-9 -- Repeat above section

10 -- Man goes away from his partner with 2 sempi (L,R)
11-12 -- Man continues away with 2 doppi leading with the same foot (L) (These sound like contrapassi, second double has to be same foot as the first for the feet to work out later on)
13-15 -- Woman move towards her partner with the same steps, but leading with the right. Man turns to face woman at the end of this
Man passes in front of the woman, woman behind to change places with the following steps (Taking hands here is suggested as optional by Domenico)
16 -- 2 sempi (L,R)
17 -- Riverentia L

18-25 -- Repeat 10-17 with roles reversed (woman away with L foot first)

Quadernaria:
1-4 -- 8 piva (starting L)

5 -- Man movimento, woman respond
6 -- Ripresa away from each other (Domenico has passiti away from each other here, but riprese are what we have learnt in the past so I prefer not to change it - other later manuscripts use riprese here)
7 -- Woman movimento, man respond
8 -- Ripresa away from each other

Saltarello:
1 -- Saltarello towards each other and take usual hands
2-4 -- 3 more saltarelli

The end (repeat, woman leading? This dance doesn't specify this but many others do, and most recordings of music go through twice)

Many versions of the music for this dance repeat the first section once at the end, it is shown this way in some of the manuscripts - possibly for the purpose of repeating the dance, or possibly because it is in fact supposed to be danced again at the end