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Book/Printed Material Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas

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Title

  • Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas

Summary

  • 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 use of the arms while dancing. The manual was translated into English in 1728 by dancer and dancing master, John Essex.

Names

  • Rameau, Pierre

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Rollin fils, 1748.

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  Plates signed: P. Rameau, invenit et fecìt.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • xxiv, 271, [1] p. : front., plates, diagrs. ; 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .R3
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item R-014a, Reel 166 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1985]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 10019566

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  • image

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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.)

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Chicago citation style:

Rameau, Pierre. Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas. A Paris: Rollin fils, 1748. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/10019566/.

APA citation style:

Rameau, P. (1748) Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas. A Paris: Rollin fils. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/10019566/.

MLA citation style:

Rameau, Pierre. Le maître à danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas. A Paris: Rollin fils, 1748. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/10019566/>.