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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, libro, altra volta, chiamato Il ballarino. Nuouamente dal proprio auttore corretto, ampliato di nuoui balli, di belle regole, & alla perfetta theorica ridotto: con le creanze necessarie à caualieri, e dame. Aggiontoui il basso, & il soprano della musica: & con l'intauolatura del liuto à ciascun ballo. Ornato di vaghe & bellissime figure in rame ...

Caroso, Fabritio.

OTHER TITLES
Nobiltà di dame

Ballarino

CREATED/PUBLISHED
In Venetia, Presso il Muschio, 1600. Ad instantia dell'auttore.

SUMMARY
In this significant manual detailing late-Renaissance Italian court dance, dancing master Caroso redefines and, in some cases, corrects information found in his first treatise, Il ballarino (1581). The manual gives rules for sixty-eight steps and contains specific choreographies for forty-nine dances. Many dances are preceded by full-page illustrations and each dance is provided with appropriate music written in Italian lute tablature and/or mensural notation. This manual was reissued in 1630 under the title, Raccolata di variji balli.

NOTES
Title within engraved architectural border ornamented with vignettes of instrumentalists, a portrait of the author, etc. Head- and tailpieces; initials. The illustrations consist of 10 full-page engravings by Giacomo Franco; 8 of them, figures of dancers, occur from 2 to 7 times each.

Part 2 has special half-title: Della Nobilta di dame ... libro secondo, nelquale s'insegnano varie sorti di balletti, cascarde, tordiglione, passo e mezzo, pauaniglia, canario, & gagliarde ...

The music, through p. 148, is in both tablature and ordinary notation; throughout the rest of the book, in tablature only.

Second edition; 1st edition published 1581 under title: Il ballarino. A reissue of the 2d edition, entitled "Raccolta di varij balli fatti in occorenze di nozze, e festini" appeared in 1630.

Page 200 misnumbered 100.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance music--17th century.
Duets (Unspecified instrument and continuo)--17th century.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Franco, Giacomo, 1550-1620.

MEDIUM
10 p.l., 370, [6] p. illus. (incl. ports.) 25 cm.

CALL NUMBER
MT950 .C25 1600

DIGITAL ID
musdi 199 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.199

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 16) - Continenza grave
(Video clip for p. 26) - Seguito ordinario
(Video clip for p. 26) - Seguito ordinario
(Video clip for p. 26) - Seguito ordinario
(Video clip for p. 30) - Seguito spezzato
(Video clip for p. 30) - Seguito spezzato
(Video clip for p. 30) - Seguito spezzato
(Video clip for p. 36) - Trabuchetto grave
(Video clip for p. 37) - Fioretto ordinario
(Video clip for p. 61) - Saffice
(Video clip for p. 62) - Destice

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