| Corona (re-reconstructed in February, 2009) | |
| a bassadanza for some number of people in a file | |
| Source: AW Smith (2 mms), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| Music: Sonare et Balare (DHDS) (not quite a full measure for intro) | |
| Starting position: The word "fila" is used for position, which means "one behind the other", or "column", so the dancers | |
| should be lined up one behind the other. Note that due to the complete lack of interaction between the dancers, | |
| the reference in one mms to "perform{ed} like La Mignotta", and the notes in La Mignotta of many people being | |
| able to do the dance at once, this may well be another "as many as will" dance. | |
| Section 1: | |
| 1 | Two sempi, left and right, cambiamento left (hop/shift onto the left foot so that the right foot is ready to step) |
| 2 - 5 | Two contrapassi, both starting right (1 1/3 measure, 8 beats) |
| One doppio, left, and cambiamento right (hop/shift to right foot) (1 measure, 6 beats) | |
| One doppio, left (1 measure, 6 beats) | |
| One sempio, right (that completes the tempo) (2/3 measure, 4 beats, total 24 beats, or 4 measures) | |
| 6 & 7 | One sempio left (in the vuodo (beginning of the measure)) to mezavolta (half a measure), |
| then one doppio, right, the first step of which should be a hop, to finish the turn (one measure), | |
| finishing measure 7 with a mezavolta (making this a turn and a half) that leaves the left foot free. | |
| 8 & 9 | Two riprese, left and right, cambiamento left (hop/shift to left foot) |
| Section 2: | |
| 10-13 | Two contrapassi, both starting right, and a mezavolta (1 1/3 measure, 8 beats) |
| Two doubles, left and right, cambiamento left (hop/shift to left foot) (2 measures, 12 beats) | |
| Mezavolta and hop onto the right foot (1/2 measure, 4 beats, total 24 beats, or 4 measures) | |
| 14 | Voltatonda to the right (with a double) |
| 15 | Ripresa left, diagonally, to mezavolta |
| 16 | Mezavolta left (with a double) |
| 17 | Ripresa right, diagonally, to mezavolta |
| 18 | Two continentie, left and right |
| Section 3: | |
| 19 | Two riprese, left and right |
| 20 | Cambiamento/hop left (hop to the left foot in the vuodo (beginning)), then one doppio, right |
| 21 | Ripresa left, diagonally forward |
| 22 | Sempio right with a hop, then a ripresa left, diagonally forward |
| 23 | Voltatonda (turn around with a double right) |
| 24 | Riverentia |
| Repeats (but the Sonare et Balare version has 5 to many measures per repeat …) | |
| There is a note in Rvat that translates to something like: | |
| This is a very challenging (fortissima = very strong, so formidible?) bassadanza, not for people who scribble | |
| on paper, appropriately the crown of the others. | |
| In my original reconstruction, I made some mistaken choices, among them to follow the music composed by the | |
| DHDS for their own reconstruction, which must obviously differ from mine since theirs is 29 measures long. | |
| Instead of assuming that my interpretation is incorrect, I have reconstructed the dance as I think it should be. | |
| My changed assumptions include reinterpreting the cambiamento into a simple weight shift (while the word means | |
| change, the manuscripts speak of it as an ornament, not a full-measure step, so the change is obvious), turning | |
| the instances where the manuscripts say ""two doppi on the right foot" from two ordinary doubles into | |
| contrapassi, which changes the timing (and makes the dance harder, as the end-note in Rvat says), and not | |
| taking another reconstruction's hint that the "performing four actions of quadernaria" should be steps in and of | |
| themselves, instead of a kind of totalling of the time to be taken for the next four steps indicated, which is more | |
| consistent with other usages I have seen. | |