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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals


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The royall : Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's birth day 1711 ...

Isaac, Mr.

OTHER TITLES
Royal

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[London : Printed for I. Walsh & I. Hare, 1711?]

SUMMARY
This ballroom dance for one couple, preserved in Feuillet notation, was choreographed by English dancing master Mr. Isaac (c. 1640-c. 1720) to music composed by James Paisible (d. 1721). The eleven couplet dance begins in triple meter and changes to a hornpipe on the fifth couplet. The dance notation system, first published by dancing master Raoul-Auger Feuillet (1659 or 1660-1710), is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance. Additionally, bar lines in the dance score correspond to bar lines in the music score. Signs written on the right- or left-hand side of the tract indicate the steps.

NOTES
RISM A/I, P 96.

LC copy imperfect: t.p. wanting. Title supplied from Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Study and teaching--England--Early works to 1800.
Ballroom dancing--England--Early works to 1800.
Dance music.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Paisible, James, 1656?-1721. Royall
Isaac, Mr.

MEDIUM
[12] leaves : ill., music ; 29 cm. (fol.)

CALL NUMBER
GV1589
MT950.P2 R5

DIGITAL ID
musdi 007 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.007

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