 While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient times (for example Ancient Greek vases sometimes show dancers accompanied by musicians), the earliest Western dance music that we can still reproduce with a degree of certainty are the surviving medieval dances such as carols and the Estampie.The earliest of these surviving dances are almost as old as Western staff-based music notation..The Renaissance dance music was written for instruments such as the lute, viol, tabor, pipe, and the sackbut.