Brussels Basse Danse Book

This publication offers for the first time a critical edition of the single most important source of the French basse danse. It provides amended choreographies and music for all the dances, including the choreographies of some not previously included in collections It also covers historical and palaeographical aspects of the manuscript in general and of the dances in particular. An appendix briefly discusses questions of performance, and demonstrates how all the steps cited in the manuscript might be interpreted.