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  <dc:title>"Medieval Dances at Haddon Hall"</dc:title>
  <dc:description>VHS video containing a short promotional documentary film relating to the Gresley dance manuscript (D77/4/25/25). Begins with an interview with County Archivist Margaret O'Sullivan (1945-2021) at Haddon Hall, showing the Gresley dance manuscript to the camera, explaining the volume's origins, its possible links with Derbyshire and how the Conservator identified a watermark dating the paper on which it is written. Later scenes show a woodwind/string quartet in contemporary dress performing music of the period on authentic instruments, with dancers inside a large room in Haddon Hall performing choreography from the volume. Interview with musicologist David Fallows of University of Manchester (b1945), explaining the cultural context of the document and his own experience of understanding the choreography and the music. Interview with Jennifer Nevile, expert on medieval dance, discussing connections between the dances in the notebook and those from 15th century Italy.

The five dances are:

Prenes a Gard.
Talbott.
Esperans.
Li Beaus desconus.
Northumberland.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c2004</dc:date>
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