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Book/Printed Material Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances

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Title

  • Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances

Summary

  • Written by a French cleric, Jehan Tabourot, in the form of a dialogue between a dancing master and his student and originally published in 1588, this manual is an important tool in the understanding of late sixteenth-century French social dance. The manual provides critical information on social ballroom behavior and on the interaction of musicians and dancers. The book's usefulness is also enhanced by a notation system that correlates the music to the dance steps. Orchesographie discusses a full spectrum of late Renaissance dance including the galliard, pavane, branle, volta, morisque, gavotte, allemande, and courante.

Names

  • Arbeau, Thoinot, 1519-1595
  • Des Preyz, Jean, printer
  • Rahir, Edouard, 1862-1924, former owner
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Lengres : Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, M.D.LXXXIX [1589]

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Notation for Dance
  • -  Music for Dance
  • -  France--Langres

Notes

  • -  Contains music.
  • -  Thoinot Arbeau is an anagram for Jehan Tabourot.
  • -  "Extraict du priuilege" is dated "Novembre 1588."
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1087
  • -  LC copy: Inscribed in gold on fly-leaf: James Edwards from his father J. E., September 1815.
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Ex libris Edouard Rahir.
  • -  LCCN on rare shelf list card 10019567. LAC tnb 2019-07-03. LCCN in National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints is 55003658. he19 2021-02-18
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 104 : numb. l. illus. ; 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .T3 1589a
  • GV1590 .T3
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item A-045, Reel 8 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

  • 55003658

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Arbeau, Thoinot, Jean Des Preyz, Edouard Rahir, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances. [Lengres: Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, M.D.LXXXIX, 1589] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/55003658/.

APA citation style:

Arbeau, T., Des Preyz, J., Rahir, E. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1589) Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances. [Lengres: Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, M.D.LXXXIX] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/55003658/.

MLA citation style:

Arbeau, Thoinot, et al. Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances. [Lengres: Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, M.D.LXXXIX, 1589] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/55003658/>.