This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is also a full-length study of these sources. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. Part One centres on the manuscript sources, which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography. In viewing the Almain within...