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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour, tant pour homme que pour femmes, dont la plus grande partie ont été dancées à l'Opera. Recüeillies et mises au jour par Mr. Feüillet ...

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 60-1710.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris, Chez le sieur Feüillet, 1704.

SUMMARY
This treatise includes six solo dances for women; eight for men; and seventeen duets for a man and a woman, two women, or two men, all choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c. 1653-1729). Feuillet notes that several of the dances were performed by some of the most famous theatrical dancers of the time including Marie-Thérèse Subligny, Claude Ballon, and Michel Blondy. Many of the dances originated in the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully including Ballet des Fragments, Persée, and Cadmus et Hermione as well as Trancrède and L'Europe Galante by André Campra. The dances are notated in a system first published by Feuillet in 1700 and 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
Engraved throughout.

"Airs des dances contenuës en ce recüeil, qui sert de table à ce volume": 16 p. at end.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Ballet--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance music--17th century.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Theatrical Dance.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729.

MEDIUM
1 p.l., 5 numb. l., 128 (i.e. 228), 16 p. diagrs. 25 cm.

CALL NUMBER
MT950 .F48

DIGITAL ID
musdi 198 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.198

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