Book/Printed Material Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera


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Title
Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera
Contributor Names
Feuillet, Raoul-Auger -- 1659 or 60-1710
Created / Published
Chez le sieur Feüillet, A Paris, 1704, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
-  Ballet--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
-  Dance music--17th century
-  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
-  Theatrical Dance
-  Notation for Dance
-  Music for Dance
Genre
book
Notes
-  Recüeillies et mises au jour par Mr. Feüillet ... (statement of responsibility)
-  Engraved throughout.
-  "Airs des dances contenuës en ce recüeil, qui sert de table à ce volume": 16 p. at end.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)
Medium
1 p. l., 5 numb. l., 128 (i.e. 228), 16 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Form
print
electronic resource
remote
Extent
1 p.l., 5 numb. l., 128 (i.e. 228), 16 p. diagrs. 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
MT950 .F48
Microfilm Music 5000 Item F-025, Reel 64 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.
Repository
Music Division
Library of Congress Control Number
11027715
Language
French
Online Format
image
Description
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. Many of the dances originated in the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully including Ballet des Fragments, Persée, and Cadmus et Hermione as well as Trancrède and L'Europe Galante by André Campra. The dances are notated in a system first published by Feuillet in 1700 and 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 left hand side of the tract indicate the steps.
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Feuillet, Raoul-Auger. Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera. Chez le sieur Feüillet, A Paris, monographic, 1704. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/11027715/.

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Feuillet, R. (1704) Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera. Chez le sieur Feüillet, A Paris, monographic. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/11027715/.

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Feuillet, Raoul-Auger. Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera. Chez le sieur Feüillet, A Paris, monographic, 1704. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/11027715/>.

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