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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Vol. 1

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

Landrin, fl. ca. 1760-1785.

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

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]

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.

NOTES
Title proper, extent statement, and approximate date of publication from Derra de Moroda.

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.

Chainlines vertical; no watermark found.

Imprint from the 12 special title pages in v. 1.

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.

Vol. 2 contains choreographic plates for the dances of v. 1. Cf. Derra de Moroda.

Derra de Moroda, F. The dance library, 1957

LC set incomplete: v. 2 wanting.

SUBJECTS
Country-dance--France--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Country-dances.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Music for Dance.

MEDIUM
2 v. : diagrams, music ; 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1649 .L36 1760

DIGITAL ID
( Vol. 1 ) musdi 245 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.245

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