Danse Medioevali Italiane
Castellani Marcello

The dances in this collection are all drawn from a 14th-centry Italian manuscript at present in the British Museum in London. In the original these are monodic compositions, but it must be borne in mind that the original manuscripts of mediaeval dances frequently represent little more than a shorthand notation, in which attention was paid to setting down only what was thought indispensable (in this case the melodic line), leaving aside details considered of secondary importance (the harmonic and rhythmic accompaniment).