Tom Van Eygen wrote an extensive article about the branle, a dance of French origin. The term is etymologically derived from the verb “branler” which, according to the Larousse dictionnaire, means “to shake, wave, sway”. Other names are also bransle, brande, brant, brando, bralle or brawl. In the literature for Renaissance lute we find about five hundred ranles.
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