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Book/Printed Material Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine Potpourri françois de contre danse ancienne tel qu'il se danse chez la Reine

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Title

  • Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine

Other Title

  • Potpourri françois de contre danse ancienne tel qu'il se danse chez la Reine

Summary

  • This is a collection of twelve contredanses, figure-dances performed by four couples and popular during the last half of the eighteenth century. Unlike other published accounts that describe a single figure for each dance, all the dances in this collection contain a series of figures, demonstrating a closer relationship with nineteenth-century quadrilles. Although this collection contains no floor patterns, the figures for each dance are described in text and appropriate music is provided.

Names

  • Landrin, active approximately 1760-1785

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez Landrin, m[archan]d de musique ét de dans[e] ..., Lahante, m[aî]tre de danse ..., M[ademoise]lle Castagnery ..., et aux adresse ordinaires, [ca. 1760]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Chainlines vertical; no watermark found.
  • -  Each of the 12 pieces which together with 4 unnumbered pages at the beginning form v. 1 has special t.p. with title: Potpourri françois de contre danse ancienne ... arrangé et mis au jour par M[onsieu]r Landrin, m[aî]tre de danse ét compositeur des Traits des contre-danse.
  • -  Engraved throughout.
  • -  Imprint from the 12 special title pages in v. 1.
  • -  LC set incomplete: v. 2 wanting.
  • -  The 12 pieces in v. 1 are numbered by hand; each has 7 numbered pages except no. 7 which has 9; the unnumbered last page is always blank.
  • -  Title proper, extent statement, and approximate date of publication from Derra de Moroda.
  • -  Vol. 2 contains choreographic plates for the dances of v. 1. Cf. Derra de Moroda.
  • -  Derra de Moroda, F. The dance library, 1957

Medium

  • 2 v. : diagrams, music ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1649 .L36 1760

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95214000

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:

Landrin, Active Approximately. Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine. [A Paris: Chez Landrin, marchand de musique ét de danse ..., Lahante, maître de danse ..., Mademoiselle Castagnery ..., et aux adresse ordinaires, 1760] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/95214000/.

APA citation style:

Landrin, A. A. (1760) Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine. [A Paris: Chez Landrin, marchand de musique ét de danse ..., Lahante, maître de danse ..., Mademoiselle Castagnery ..., et aux adresse ordinaires] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95214000/.

MLA citation style:

Landrin, Active Approximately. Potpourri françois des contre-danse ancienne tel quil se danse chez la Reine. [A Paris: Chez Landrin, marchand de musique ét de danse ..., Lahante, maître de danse ..., Mademoiselle Castagnery ..., et aux adresse ordinaires, 1760] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/95214000/>.