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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. Done from the French of Monsieur Rameau, by J. Essex ...
OTHER TITLES
Maître à danser. English. 1728
Dancing-master
Art of dancing explained
CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton, 1728.
SUMMARY
This is a translation of one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance--Pierre Rameau's 1725 Le maître a danser. Translated by English dancer and writer John Essex (c. 1680-1744), part one of the text and accompanying full-page plates carefully focus on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and describe a large vocabulary of steps. Part two covers use of the arms while dancing. This English translation was reissued in 1732.
SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
RELATED NAMES
Essex, John, tr.
MEDIUM
xxxii, 160 p. front., 56 pl. (part fold.) 25 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .R4
DIGITAL ID
musdi 143 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.143
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 43-47) - Minuet step of two movements
(Video clip for p. 43-47) - Minuet step of three movements
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