| Gioliva | |
| a bassadanza for two | |
| Source: AW Smith (7 mms), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| Music: Il Bel Danzare (DHDS) (2 measures of intro) | |
| Starting position: side by side, holding hands (by default) | |
| Section 1: | |
| 1 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 2-4 | Two sempi, left and right, and two doppi, left and right; mezavolta (so that the woman is "leading", I.e. on the left of the man) |
| 5&6 | Two riprese, left and right |
| Section 2: | |
| 7 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 8-10 | The woman circles the man with two sempi and two doppi, starting left; the man stays still |
| 11&12 | Join hands, two riprese, left and right |
| Section 3: | |
| 13 | One continentie, left, and pause |
| 14-16 | The man circles the woman with two sempi and two doppi, starting left; the woman stays still |
| 17&18 | Join hands, two riprese, left and right |
| Section 4: | |
| 19&20 | Two saltarelli, left and right, then mezavolta (so that the man is leading again) |
| 21 | Ripresa, left |
| 22&23 | Volta del Gioioso (two sempi, right and left, ripresa right) |
| Dance repeats with indications in the instructions that the woman should lead from the start the second time. | |
| Liberties were taken with the last section to fit the music created for this dance. There are instructions in just two out of the seven | |
| manuscripts to do sempi and doppi after the left ripresa, and I dropped them first (the ripresa left, volta del gioioso combination | |
| is common elsewhere so it made sense to put them together). I found that I needed to remove two more measures, so I took out | |
| the riverentias that should start and end section 4. | |