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Notated Music 15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes Recueil des contre-danses et walzes / 28e. recueil des contre-danses et waltzes

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Title

  • 15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

Other Title

  • Recueil des contre-danses et walzes
  • 28e. recueil des contre-danses et waltzes

Summary

  • By the end of the eighteenth century, publishers were regularly offering collections of music appropriate for dancing contredanses, quadrilles, and waltzes. This large collection contains music for waltzes and sets of contredanses, scored for two treble instruments.

Names

  • Clarchies, Louis Julien, 1769-1814.

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez Frere, [179-?-1815?]

Headings

  • -  Violin music (Violins (2))--Scores
  • -  Country-dances (Music)--France
  • -  Country dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Waltzes--France
  • -  Waltz--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Music for Dance

Notes

  • -  Principally for 2 violins.
  • -  RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), A/I, C 2557
  • -  RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales, 990009999 https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990009999&View=rism External
  • -  Title from t.p. of recueil 15 (the number is in ms. on the engraved t.p.).
  • -  Recueil 28 has variant publisher statement: Chez Frere père.
  • -  Each vol. of 45 p. contains several contre-danses, each accompanied by dance instructions, followed by several waltzes and (in most vols.) other dances.
  • -  Pl. no.: 1/30 J.
  • -  LC set consists of recueils 12-13, 16-17, 20, 23, 25-26, and 28 bound together in reverse numerical order; only recueil 28 has retained its t.p. Between recueils 23 and 20 is bound a similar unidentified vol. (without pl. no.) containing contre-danses by Julien (Clarchies) and 4 other composers and unattributed waltzes.
  • -  Recueil 28 available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
  • -  Intended to be complete in 30 v.; note on t.p. of recueil 28 states it is the 1st of 3 planned posthumous vols.

Medium

  • 1 score (30[?] v.) ; 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • M286.C53 A13 1790z
  • M1450.J6 R4 Copy 2. Recueil 15 only. With: 6. recueil de quatre quadrilles de nouvelles contre-danses / par J.C. Joly. A Paris : Chez Frere, 179-? Bound together subsequent to publication.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50044987

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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:

Clarchies, Louis Julien. 15e.-30e. Recueil Des Contre-Danses Et Walzes. [A Paris: Chez Frere, 179-?-?, 1815] Notated Music. https://lccn.loc.gov/50044987.

APA citation style:

Clarchies, L. J. (1815) 15e.-30e. Recueil Des Contre-Danses Et Walzes. [A Paris: Chez Frere, 179-?-?] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/50044987.

MLA citation style:

Clarchies, Louis Julien. 15e.-30e. Recueil Des Contre-Danses Et Walzes. [A Paris: Chez Frere, 179-?-?, 1815] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <lccn.loc.gov/50044987>.