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Book/Printed Material Per. receüil [sic] de danses de bal pour l'année 1703 Premier recueil de danses de bal

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Title

  • Per. receüil [sic] de danses de bal pour l'année 1703

Other Title

  • Premier recueil de danses de bal

Summary

  • This treatise contains two duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c. 1653-1729) and notated in the eighteenth-century notation system first published by Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The system is 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.

Names

  • Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 1660-1710
  • Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729
  • Zaehnsdorf (Firm) binder

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Le sieur Feüillet, 1702.

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance music--18th century
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Notation for Dance
  • -  Music for Dance

Genre

  • Bookbinding (Binding)--DLC

Notes

  • -  Full-page diagrams; at head of each diagram, the tune for the dance figure is represented.
  • -  "Airs de danses contenües en ce recüil [sic]": verso of t.-p.
  • -  LC copy: Fine binding. Binder: Zaehnsdorf.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)
  • -  LAC tnb 2022-01-24 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC tnb 2022-01-27 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC tnb 2022-03-22 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 2 p. l., 27 p. : ill., music ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .F53
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item F-024, 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

  • 44029074

Online Format

  • image

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The accompanying videos were produced by the Library of Congress. Note Video Performers for additional credits for video performers.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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, Guillaume Louis Pécourt, and Zaehnsdorf Binder. Per. Receüil Sic De Danses De Bal Pour L'année. A Paris: Le sieur Feüillet, 1702. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/44029074/.

APA citation style:

Feuillet, R., Pécourt, G. L. & Zaehnsdorf Binder. (1702) Per. Receüil Sic De Danses De Bal Pour L'année. A Paris: Le sieur Feüillet. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44029074/.

MLA citation style:

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 Or, Guillaume Louis Pécourt, and Zaehnsdorf Binder. Per. Receüil Sic De Danses De Bal Pour L'année. A Paris: Le sieur Feüillet, 1702. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44029074/>.