Book/Printed Material Nvove 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. Conueneuoli a tutti i cavalieri, e dame, per ogni sorta di balletto, & brando d'Italia, di Spagna e di Francia. Con figure in rame et regole della musica et intauolatura di suono et al canto. Divisa in tre trattati Nuove inventioni di balli
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Title
- Nvove 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. Conueneuoli a tutti i cavalieri, e dame, per ogni sorta di balletto, & brando d'Italia, di Spagna e di Francia. Con figure in rame et regole della musica et intauolatura di suono et al canto. Divisa in tre trattati
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- Nuove inventioni di balli
Summary
- 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 the third section details a wide repertory of additional steps utilized in the treatise's forty-three choreographies. Many of the choreographies are preceded by full-page illustrations and each dance is provided with appropriate music written in Italian lute tablature and/or mensural notation.
Names
- Negri, Cesare, 1536?-
- Della Rovere, Giovanni Mauro, 1575-1640, illustrator
- Pallavicini, Leone, active 1590-1616, engraver
- Bordone, Girolamo, -1620?, printer
- Clement XII, Pope, 1652-1740, associated name, binder
- Cappuccini dell'Immacolata Concezione (Naples, Italy). Biblioteca, former owner
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- In Milano : G. Bordone, 1604.
Headings
- - Court dancing--Italy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
- - Court dances (Music)
- - Lute music
- - Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
- - Music for Dance
- - Italy--Milan
Genre
- Armorial bindings (Binding)--DLC
Notes
- - Running title: Le gratie d'amore, the title under which the work was first published in 1602.
- - Includes lute tablatures for some of the dances.
- - Earlier state (?) of engraving on p. 256 inserted between p. 202 and [203].
- - The engravings are by Leone Pallavicini after designs by G. M. della Rovere.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1333
- - Rosenwald collection copy also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- - LC copy: Rosenwald copy stamped on title page: Capvccinorvm conceptionis Neapolis Bibliothecae. Stal. armorial binding. Binder: Pope Clement XIII.
- - LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (2 cards)
- - LAC tnb 2022-01-31 update (2 cards)
- - LAC ddw 2022-02-04 update (1 card)
- - LAC tnb 2022-03-24 update (2 cards)
Medium
- 296 (i.e. 300) p. : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- GV1590 .N4 1604
- MT950 .N37 Copy 2. 30 cm. Copy 2 imperfect: t.p. wanting, supplied in MS. with incorrect transcription.
- Microfilm Music 5000 Item N-008, Reel 144 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12018603
Online Format
- online text
- image
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IIIF Presentation Manifest
Part of
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, Ca. 1490 to 1920 (326)
- Books About Music Before 1800 (2,006)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (2,013)
- Rare Book Selections (5,283)
- Music Treasures Consortium: Library of Congress (6,809)
- Rare Book and Special Collections Division (29,054)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog (1,587,057)
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Contributor
- Bordone, Girolamo
- Cappuccini Dell'immacolata Concezione (Naples, Italy). Biblioteca
- Clement XII
- Della Rovere, Giovanni Mauro
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Negri, Cesare
- Pallavicini, Leone