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Book/Printed Material Recüeil de contredances mises en chorégraphie, d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre, sans le secours d'aucun maître et même sans avoir en aucune connoissance de la chorégraphie

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Title

  • Recüeil de contredances mises en chorégraphie, d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre, sans le secours d'aucun maître et même sans avoir en aucune connoissance de la chorégraphie

Summary

  • This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called contredanses (also spelled contredance) in France. The manual describes motions for the feet and arms, how the dance corresponds to the music, and rules for performance. Additionally, floor plans and music for ten dances are given. Feuillet also suggests appropriate steps. Performed as a series of figures by a column of men facing a column of women, the English country dance was a popular ballroom dance during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1710, this manual was translated into English as For the further improvement of dancing, by English dancer, dancing master and writer John Essex.

Names

  • Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 1660-1710

Created / Published

  • A Paris : L'auteur, 1706.

Headings

  • -  Country dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Country-dances (Music)--17th century
  • -  Dance notation
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Notation for Dance
  • -  Music for Dance

Notes

  • -  Engraved throughout.
  • -  Contains music.

Medium

  • 16 p. l., 192 p. : ill., music ; 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT950 .F485
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item F-026, Reel 64 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 24027846

Online Format

  • image

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Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

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Chicago citation style:

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 Or. Recüeil De Contredances Mises En Chorégraphie, D'une Maniére Si Aisée, Que Toutes Personnes Peuvent Facilement Les Apprendre, Sans Le Secours D'aucun Maître Et Même Sans Avoir En Aucune Connoissance De La Chorégraphie. A Paris: L'auteur, 1706. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/24027846/.

APA citation style:

Feuillet, R. (1706) Recüeil De Contredances Mises En Chorégraphie, D'une Maniére Si Aisée, Que Toutes Personnes Peuvent Facilement Les Apprendre, Sans Le Secours D'aucun Maître Et Même Sans Avoir En Aucune Connoissance De La Chorégraphie. A Paris: L'auteur. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/24027846/.

MLA citation style:

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 Or. Recüeil De Contredances Mises En Chorégraphie, D'une Maniére Si Aisée, Que Toutes Personnes Peuvent Facilement Les Apprendre, Sans Le Secours D'aucun Maître Et Même Sans Avoir En Aucune Connoissance De La Chorégraphie. A Paris: L'auteur, 1706. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/24027846/>.