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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Per. receüil [sic] de danses de bal pour l'année 1703. De la composition de M. Pecour, et mis au jour par M. Feüillet ...

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

OTHER TITLES
Premier recueil de danses de bal

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris, Le sieur Feüillet [etc.] 1702.

SUMMARY
This treatise contains two duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c. 1653-1729) and notated in the eighteenth-century notation system first published by Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The system 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
Full-page diagrams; at head of each diagram, the tune for the dance figure is represented.

"Airs de danses contenües en ce recüil [sic]": verso of t.-p.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance music--18th century.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729.

MEDIUM
2 p.l., 27 p. of diagrs. 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .F53

DIGITAL ID
musdi 211 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.211

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