Renaissance Dances for the Small Harp

Lap Harp Sheet Music for Renaissance Music

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 DancesJOHN 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]