J. Scott Olsen, "Ancient Dance"

I felt I went pretty cop-out this week with my entry, Ancient Dance. I do still intend to at least make the guitar parts more genuine, though I'd wish I'd looked up lute fingers and written for lute. On a higher level, I wasn't even that true to history when I chose "medieval" dance for this week's topic. I'm rusty on the music history, but I'm not sure how much dance music was written down and survived until the present. There is some church music and things like motets and maybe early madrigals, but no real "music of the people" that I can recall. Maybe some troubadour songs? ("Chansons?") Ahh, it's been a while and the rust is heavy...


So this week's entry is definitely more Renaissance-era than medieval, but so be it. And it's shorter and less detailed than I would have liked. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here it is: