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Book/Printed Material Trattato del ballo nobile,

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Title

  • Trattato del ballo nobile,

Summary

  • Part one of this text consists of thirty-four chapters devoted to instructions for steps required in Italian Baroque dance including pirola (pirouette), sfuggito (echappé), passo unite (assemblé), and cadente (tombé). Each step is fully described and notated in Feuillet notation, the dance notation system first published by French choreographer Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The second part of the manual contains six chapters devoted to performance of the minuetto (minuet) and concludes with a section on the contradanza (contredanse) and riverenze (bows).

Names

  • Dufort, Giovanni Battista

Created / Published

  • In Napoli : Nella stamperia di F. Mosca, 1728.

Headings

  • -  Dance--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Notation for Dance
  • -  Theatrical Dance

Notes

  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 12 p. l., 160 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .D8
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item D-058, Reel 59 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 09001083

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Dufort, Giovanni Battista. Trattato Del Ballo Nobile. In Napoli: Nella stamperia di F. Mosca, 1728. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/09001083/.

APA citation style:

Dufort, G. B. (1728) Trattato Del Ballo Nobile. In Napoli: Nella stamperia di F. Mosca. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/09001083/.

MLA citation style:

Dufort, Giovanni Battista. Trattato Del Ballo Nobile. In Napoli: Nella stamperia di F. Mosca, 1728. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/09001083/>.