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Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances. Par Thoinot Arbeau demeurant à Lengres.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Lengres, Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, 1589.
SUMMARY
Written by a French cleric, Jehan Tabourot, in the form of a dialogue between a dancing master and his student and originally published in 1588, this manual is an important tool in the understanding of late sixteenth-century French social dance. The manual provides critical information on social ballroom behavior and on the interaction of musicians and dancers. The book's usefulness is also enhanced by a notation system that correlates the music to the dance steps. Orchesographie discusses a full spectrum of late Renaissance dance including the galliard, pavane, branle, volta, morisque, gavotte, allemande, and courante.
NOTES
Contains music.
Thoinot Arbeau is an anagram for Jehan Tabourot.
"Extraict du priuilege" is dated "Novembre 1588."
Inscribed in gold on fly-leaf: James Edwards from his father J. E., September 1815.
Ex libris Edouard Rahir.
SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.
MEDIUM
104 l. illus. 21 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .T3 1589a
DIGITAL ID
musdi 219 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.219
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 27r) - Pas simple and pas double forwards for dancing the pavane
(Video clip for p. 27r) - Pas simple for dancing the branle
(Video clip for p. 27v) - Pas simple and pas double backwards for dancing the pavane
(Video clip for p. 27v) - Pas double for dancing the branle
(Video clip for p. 28v-29r) - Pavane
(Video clip for p. 29r) - Conversion for dancing the pavane
(Video clip for p. 40v) - Reverence
(Video clip for p. 53r) - Cinq pas de la gaillard (gaillard variations)
(Video clip for p. 53v) - Autre cinq pas (gaillard variations)
(Video clip for p. 60r) - Passage d'unze pas (eleven-step galliard variation)
(Video clip for p. 68v) - Branle double
(Video clip for p. 71r) - Branle simple
(Video clip for p. 76r) - Branle Charlotte
(Video clip for p. 83r) - Branle des Vandieres
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