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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Basses danses dites de Marguerite d'Autriche (Ms. 9085 aus dem Besitz der Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles) : vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift.

OTHER TITLES
Basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, c1987.

SUMMARY
This is a facsimile reproduction of a rare fifteenth-century source for the bassedanse, a Burgundian court dance. Known as Brussels manuscript 9085, it consists of twenty-five parchment leaves on black paper with gold rules and calligraphic initials in silver. Seventeen folios contain specific music and choreographies in the earliest known dance notation.

NOTES
Full-color facsimile of the anonymous 15th century dance notebook.

Title from inside of lower cover.

"Die Verkaufsauflage dieser Faksimile-Ausgabe ist auf 500 arabisch (1-500) numerierte Exemplare limitiert. Zusätzlich zur Verkaufsauflage wurden noch 80 römisch (I-LXXX) numerierte Exemplare für die Sponsoren der Ausgabe und als Belege hergestellt".

Ownership marks and the coat of arms are on free end papers (not included in page count).

Issued in a solander case with a commentary volume (commentary covered by LC record 90172102) by Claudine Lemaire, Claude Thiry, and Victor Gavenda, issued in 1988.

LC has copy no. 30.

SUBJECTS
Basse danse.
Dance music--16th century.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Margaret, of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530.

RELATED TITLES
Codices selecti phototypice impressi ; v. 87.
Musica manuscripta ; 5.

MEDIUM
[50] p. : 1 col. coat of arms ; 13 x 21 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1796.B28 B27 1988

DIGITAL ID
musdi 112 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.112

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