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Book/Printed MaterialTratado dos principæs fundamentos da dança, obra muito util, naõ sómente para esta mocidade, que quer aprender a dançar bem, mas ainda para as pessoas honestas, e polidas, as quæs ensina as ...
Tratado da dança Portuguese dancing master Bonem's manual borrows from the work of contemporary French sources, including dancing masters Guillaume-Louis Pecour and Pierre Rameau. The manual's fourteen chapters focus on dance in the court of Louis XIV and include discussion on feet positions, bows appropriate for various occasions, and the steps and arm positions for the minuet.- Contributor: Bonem, Natal Jacome - Na Officina Dos Irmaõs Ginhoens
- Date: 1767-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNvove inventioni di balli, opera vaghissima ... nella quale si danno i giusti modi del ben portar la vita, e di accommodarsi con ogni leggiadria di mouimento alle creanze e gratie d'amore. ...
Nuove inventioni di balli Originally published as Le gratie d'amore in 1602, this manual is considered one of them most valuable and diverse primary sources on Italian court dance. Divided into three parts, the first part illuminates the career and students of dancing master Cesare Negri (ca. 1536-ca. 1604; also known as Il Trombone); the second is devoted to the era's most virtuosic dance type, the galliard; and...- Contributor: Bordone, Girolamo - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Negri, Cesare - Cappuccini Dell'immacolata Concezione (Naples, Italy). Biblioteca - G. Bordone - Pallavicini, Leone - Della Rovere, Giovanni Mauro - Clement XII
- Date: 1604
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Book/Printed MaterialAbbregé de la nouvelle methode, dans l'art d'écrire ou de traçer toutes sortes, de danses de ville ... mise au jour par le Sr. Rameau ... Ouvrage très utile pour toutes personnes ...
Abregé de la nouv. choregraphie | Seconde partie contenant douze des plus belles danses de Monsieur Pecour The first part of this manual discusses performance of various steps including demi coupé, coupé, bourée, chassé, and pirouette. Through the use of text and tables, Rameau also provides discussion on an improved and simplified version of Feuillet notation, the eighteenth-century system of recording dances. The second part of the text consists of notations for twelve duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis...- Contributor: Chez L'auteur, Faubourg St Germain [Etc - Pécourt, Guillaume Louis - Orléans, Philippine Élisabeth D - Hoff, G. Whitney (Grace Whitney) - Rameau, Pierre - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1725
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Book/Printed MaterialThe dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The ...
Dancing-master | Art of dancing explained This is a translation of one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance--Pierre Rameau's 1725 Le maître a danser. Translated by English dancer and writer John Essex (c. 1680-1744), part one of the text and accompanying full-page plates carefully focus on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and describe a large vocabulary of steps. Part...- Contributor: Essex, John - Rameau, Pierre - Printed and Sold by Him, and J. Brotherton
- Date: 1728-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOrchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances Written by a French cleric, Jehan Tabourot, in the form of a dialogue between a dancing master and his student and originally published in 1588, this manual is an important tool in the understanding of late sixteenth-century French social dance. The manual provides critical information on social ballroom behavior and on the interaction of musicians and dancers. The book's usefulness is also enhanced by...
- Contributor: Imprimé Par Iehan Des Preyz - Rahir, Edouard - Des Preyz, Jean - Arbeau, Thoinot - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialA treatise on the art of dancing Originally published in 1762 and reissued in 1765, this work borrows heavily from previously published materials, including the works of Locke, Goldini, and especially John Weaver's 1712 An Essay towards a history of dancing. Gallini (1728-1805) presents a history of dance, arguments for learning the art of dance, and a discourse on the minuet. Especialy interesting are Gallini's comments on European and non-European dance,...
- Contributor: Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea - Printed for the Author and Sold by R. Dodsley [Etc.]
- Date: 1772-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTraitté contre les danses An early example of an antidance treatise, this manual provides a foundation for arguments that continued to the end of the nineteenth century--that dancing is a sin against God. Much of Boiseul's argument is based on biblical examples (chapters and verses are noted in the margins of each page). While acknowledging that dance is mentioned in the Bible, the author is quick to point...
- Contributor: Boiseul, Jean - Les Heritiers De Hierosme Havltin
- Date: 1606-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialFamiliar dialogues on dancing, between a minister and a dancer : taken from matter of fact : with an appendix containing some extracts from the writings of pious and eminent men against ... Substantiated by quotations from other writers including Pascal, the Prince of Conti, Chief Justice Hale, and Archbishop Tillotson, Phillips declares dance to be a vain and idle amusement. While he acknowledges that many people assume the study of dance teaches good carriage and a "graceful and easy way of moving our limbs," he notes that Quakers, "who hold dancing in abomination," manage to display...
- Contributor: Phillips, John - Printed by T. Kirk - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1798-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMéthode pour exercer l'oreille a la mesure, dans l'art de la danse In part one of this treatise, Bacquoy-Guédon (fl. 1780) presents a short history of dance as well as arguments in favor of dancing. The focus of this section is devoted to performance of contredanses and minuets. Part two contains eight-bar triple-meter airs for minuets and eight-bar duple-meter airs for contredanses, all composed for a single treble instrument. Additional music is included for a variant...
- Contributor: Chez Valade, Libraire - Bacquoy-Guédon, Alexis
- Date: 1785-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in ...
Art of dancing explain'd The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.- Contributor: Printed for the Author - Tomlinson, Kellom
- Date: 1735-01-01
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