PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

Click on picture for larger image, full item, or more versions.  [Rights and Reproductions]

Abbregé de la nouvelle methode, dans l'art d'écrire ou de traçer toutes sortes de danses de ville ... mise au jour par le Sr. Rameau ... Ouvrage très utile pour toutes personnes qui ont sçu ou qui apprennent à danser, puis que par le secour de ce livre, on peut se remettre facilement dans toutes les danses que l'on à appris ...

Rameau, Pierre.

OTHER TITLES
Abregé de la nouv. choregraphie

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris, Chez l'auteur, faubourg St Germain [etc., 1725?]

SUMMARY
The first part of this manual discusses performance of various steps including demi coupé, coupé, bourée, chassé, and pirouette. Through the use of text and tables, Rameau also provides discussion on an improved and simplified version of Feuillet notation, the eighteenth-century system of recording dances. The second part of the text consists of notations for twelve duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour.

NOTES
LC copy imperfect: p. 29-30 of pt. 1 wanting.

Privilege dated 1725.

No. 73 apparently omitted in paging of pt. 1.

Part 2, engraved throughout, has title: Seconde partie contenant douze des plus belles danses de Monsieur Pecour ... et remis en choregraphie suivant la nouvelle correction et augmentation du sr. Rameau ... (The air for each dance is given at top of page).

SUBJECTS
Dance.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729.

MEDIUM
5 p.l., 111 (i.e. 110), [2] p., 1 l., 83 p. incl. diagrs. 20 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .R28 1725

DIGITAL ID
musdi 141 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.141

PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH