On my Ascending Cadence Gestures blog, I have started a series of several posts on design and cadences in dances from Michael Praetorius's mammoth collection Terpsichore (1612). The first post is here: link. A second has also been published and six more posts are coming.
After that, there will be another series on dances from John Playford's English Dancing Master (multiple editions from 1651 to 1728).
