The Notes in Spanish provides the original text and quotations, already presented in English in Volume I, in their original Spanish.

Vol. 1: Treatises and music ; vol. 2: choreographic descriptions with concordances of variants.

Thomas describes a people's interaction and involvement with their favorite dance and music, and his own involvement through a reflexivity that he finds an increasingly productive perspective in Ethnomusicology. The fatele was introduced early in the 20th century, and includes new imagery in dance a

The Art of Dancing in Seventeenth-Century Spain includes a transcription of the Spanish text, a translation of that text into English, and extensive commentary that contextualizes the dancing in light of European, particularly Spanish, dance, society, culture, and history."--BOOK JACKET.