» This article's about the medieval dance; for the German band see Estampie (band). The medieval dance and musical form called the estampie in French, the estampida in Occitan, and istampitta (also istanpitta or stampita) in Italian was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries. Musical Form The estampie consists of four to seven sections, called puncta, each of which's repeated, in the form » aa, bb, cc, etc.. Different endings (ouvert (open) and clos (closed)) are provided f… (More on Estampie)