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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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Trattato del ballo nobile, di Giambatista Dufort, indirizzato all' eccellenza delle signore dame, e de' signori cavalieri napoletani.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
In Napoli, Nella stamperia di F. Mosca, 1728.
SUMMARY
Part one of this text consists of thirty-four chapters devoted to instructions for steps required in Italian Baroque dance including pirola (pirouette), sfuggito (echappé), passo unite (assemblé), and cadente (tombé). Each step is fully described and notated in Feuillet notation, the dance notation system first published by French choreographer Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The second part of the manual contains six chapters devoted to performance of the minuetto (minuet) and concludes with a section on the contradanza (contredanse) and riverenze (bows).
SUBJECTS
Dance--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Theatrical Dance.
Notation for Dance.
MEDIUM
12 p.l., 160 p. diagrs. 18 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .D8
DIGITAL ID
musdi 060 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.060
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