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    Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, fi...
    Chorégraphie | Art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs
    Originally published in 1700, this manual details a dance notation system that indicates the placement of the feet and six basic leg movements: plié, releveé, sauté, cabriole, tombé, and glissé. Changes of body direction and numerous ornamentations of the legs and arms are also part of the system. The system is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance. Additionaly, bar...
    • Contributor: Chez Le Sr Dezais - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger - Dezais, Jacques
    • Date: 1713-01-01
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    Recueil de dances With his Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caractères ... Paris, 1713. Engraved throughout. Full-page diagrams; at head of each diagram, the tune for the dance figure is represented. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)
    • Contributor: L'auteur - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger
    • Date: 1709-01-01
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    Recueil de dances With his Chorégraphie, ou l'Art de décrire la dance par caracteres ... Paris, 1713. Engraved throughout. Full-page diagrams; at head of each diagram, the tune for the dance figure is represented. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
    • Contributor: L'auteur - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger - Pécourt, Guillaume Louis
    • Date: 1709-01-01
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    Per. receüil [sic] de danses de bal pour l'année 1703
    Premier recueil de danses de bal
    This treatise contains two duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c. 1653-1729) and notated in the eighteenth-century notation system first published by Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The system is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance. Additionally, bar lines in the dance score correspond to bar lines in the music score. Signs written on the right or...
    • Contributor: Zaehnsdorf (Firm) - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger - Le Sieur Feüillet [Etc.] - Pécourt, Guillaume Louis
    • Date: 1702-01-01
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    Le répertoire des bals, ou Theorie-pratique des contredanses,...
    Theorie-pratique des contredanses
    This is a bound collection of contredanses, figured group dances for four or more couples that were popular during the last half of the eighteenth century. Each dance is described on four pages: a title page that gives the name of the dance and its choreographer, a page of text describing the figure, a page showing the floor pattern of the dance, and a...
    • Contributor: La Cuisse (Sr. De) - Cailleau [Etc.] - La Cuisse
    • Date: 1762-01-01
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    Abbregé de la nouvelle methode, dans l'art d'écrire ou de tra...
    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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    Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les... Originally published in 1725 and reissued in 1734 and 1748 by French dancing master and writer Pierre Rameau (1674-1748), this is one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance technique. Part one of the text (with accompanying full-page plates) carefully describes the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, bows, and a large vocabulary of steps. Part two covers...
    • Contributor: Rameau, Pierre - Rollin Fils
    • Date: 1748-01-01
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    The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein...
    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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    Méthode pour exercer l'oreille a la mesure, dans l'art de la ... 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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    For the furthur improvement of dancing : a treatis of chorogr...
    Treatis of chorography | Art of dancing country dances after a new character
    This is a translation of Raoul-Auger Feuillet's treatise Recueil de contredances mises ... (Paris, 1706), by English dance, dancing master, and writer John Essex. Through the use of diagrams, the manual gives descriptions of floor patterns and motions for the feet and arms, indicates how the dance corresponds to the music, and provides rules for performance of English country dances, known in France as...
    • Contributor: Essex, John - Sold by I. Walsh & P. Randall ... I. Hare ... I. Culen ... & by Ye Author - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger
    • Date: 1710-01-01
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    Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meilli... This treatise includes six solo dances for women; eight for men; and seventeen duets for a man and a woman, two women, or two men, all choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c. 1653-1729). Feuillet notes that several of the dances were performed by some of the most famous theatrical dancers of the time including Marie-Thérèse Subligny, Claude Ballon, and Michel Blondy....
    • Contributor: Chez Le Sieur Feüillet - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger - Pécourt, Guillaume Louis
    • Date: 1704-01-01
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    Recüeil de contredances mises en chorégraphie, d'une maniére ... This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called contredanses (also spelled contredance) in France. The manual describes motions for the feet and arms, how the dance corresponds to the music, and rules for performance. Additionally, floor plans and music for ten dances are given. Feuillet also suggests appropriate steps. Performed as a series of figures by...
    • Contributor: L'auteur - Feuillet, Raoul-Auger
    • Date: 1706-01-01