ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a number of the measures other than almains, and reconstructs each one from the manuscript sources. One of the simplest dances in the sources, the Quadran Pavan requires only movement forward and back, varied by occasional movement to the sides. Perhaps the choreography which originally accompanied the neighbouring music in Source G, The House Measure, but which was not copied in either manuscript, was similarly 'newly devis'd'. If the origins of Turkeyloney's choreography are obscure, the same cannot be said of its music, which is well attested in continental sources under such titles as Gientil Madonna and Passamezzo la douce. The Source G version of the melody fits all of the Earl of Essex choreographies like a glove, and has therefore been used for the reconstruction. George Gascoigne's text furnishes more information about Tinternel than has been realized hitherto.