Quatre branles

The Quatre Branles is a suite of four dances done as one. It consists of the Double Branle, the Single Branle, the Gay Branle and the Burgundian Branle. Thoinot Arbeau tells us in Orchesography that these were the first four branles danced at a ball. However as they are all mindnumbingly easy dancers in the area of Stormhold have taken to dancing the four pieces as one dance, to music of the same name by Tielman Susato.

According to the rules of French pronunciation quatre is pronounced katr with a rolling r. In honour of the whimsical mispronunciations of French by the Elizabethans however, it is often pronounced as the English word quarter.