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Book/Printed Material Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances Chorégraphie / Art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs

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Title

  • Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances

Other Title

  • Chorégraphie
  • Art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs

Summary

  • 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 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. Chorégraphie was reprinted three times and translated into English by John Weater in 1706.

Names

  • Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 1660-1710
  • Dezais, Jacques, active 1680-1722, joint author

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez le Sr Dezais, 1713.

Headings

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

Genre

  • Bookplates (Provenance)--DLC

Notes

  • -  Engraved throughout.
  • -  Contains music.
  • -  With this are bound the author's Recueil de dances ... Paris, 1709, and Recueil de dances, composées par M. Pecour ... et mise sur le papier par M. Feuillet ... Paris, 1709.
  • -  LC Copy: Book-plate: Terrode, Matheurin.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)
  • -  LAC ael 2021-07-14 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 3 p. l., 95 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .F5
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item F-022b, Reel 64 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 14002127

Online Format

  • image

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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:

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 Or, and Jacques Dezais. Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances. A Paris: Chez le Sr Dezais, 1713. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/14002127/.

APA citation style:

Feuillet, R. & Dezais, J. (1713) Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances. A Paris: Chez le Sr Dezais. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/14002127/.

MLA citation style:

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 Or, and Jacques Dezais. Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances. A Paris: Chez le Sr Dezais, 1713. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/14002127/>.