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 is repeated, in the form » aa, bb, cc, etc.. Different endings (ouvert (open) and clos (closed)) are provided for the first and second statement of each punctum, so that the structure can be » a… (More on Estampie)