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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals


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Tratado dos principaes fundamentos da dança, obra muito util, naõ sómente para esta mocidade, que quer aprender a dançar bem, mas ainda para as pessoas honestas, e polidas, as quaes ensina as regras para bem andar, saudar, e fazer todas as cortezias, que convem em as assembleas adonde o uzo do mundo a todos chama ... Por Natal Jacome Bonem ...

Bonem, Natal Jacome.

OTHER TITLES
Tratado da dança

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Coimbra, Na Officina dos Irmaõs Ginhoens, 1767.

SUMMARY
Portuguese dancing master Bonem's manual borrows from the work of contemporary French sources, including dancing masters Guillaume-Louis Pecour and Pierre Rameau. The manual's fourteen chapters focus on dance in the court of Louis XIV and include discussion on feet positions, bows appropriate for various occasions, and the steps and arm positions for the minuet.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Early works to 1800.
Salutations--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
6 p.l., 3-138 p., 3 l. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .B73

DIGITAL ID
musdi 024 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.024

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