| Basse Franzesse | |
| a bassadanze for 2 | |
| Source: AW Smith (NYP), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| Music: Alta Danza (no intro) | |
| Starting position: side by side, holding hands (the dancers never separate by the instructions) | |
| Section 1: | |
| 1&2 | Riverentia to the ground |
| 3 | 2 continentie, left and right |
| 4 | 2 sempi, left and right |
| 5-9 | 5 doppi, starting left |
| 10 | 2 sempi, right and left |
| 11-13 | 3 riprese francesi, right, left, right ("francesi" is not explained - how about nearly backward?) |
| Section 2: | |
| 14 | 2 continentie, left and right |
| 15 | 2 sempi, left and right |
| 16-18 | 3 doppi, left, right, left |
| 19 | 2 sempi, right and left |
| 20-22 | 3 riprese francesi, right, left, right |
| Section 3: | |
| 23 | 2 continentie, left and right |
| 24 | 2 sempi, left and right |
| 25 | 1 doppio, left |
| 26-28 | 3 riprese francesi, right, left, right |
| Section 5: | |
| 29-36 | 8 saltarelli, starting left (do not separate) |
| Alta Danza music repeats | |
| Note: | Basse Franzesse means French Basse. If you look at the structure of the first three sections, |
| you may note the similarity to a Burgundian basse danse if you see the continentie as the bransle, | |
| and the riprese francesi as the demarche (and I hadn't noticed the similarities of structure when I | |
| wrote that perhaps they should be done backwards). Set up like this, you have a 5-3-1 basse danse | |
| with some saltarelli tacked onto the end (I suppose that the Italians felt they were required). | |