The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675

This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. � Part One centres on the manuscript sources which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evol