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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals


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Receuil danglaise : arrangees avec leurs traits telle quel se danse, ché la Reine / mis au jour par M[onsieu]r Landrin, m[ai]tre de danse ét compositeur des traits des contre-danse.

Landrin, fl. ca. 1760-1785.

OTHER TITLES
Recueil d'anglaises

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris : Landrin, m[archan]d de musique ét de dans[e] ... ét chez Mlle Castagnery ..., [between ca. 1760 and 1785]

SUMMARY
This is a collection of nine English country dances with directions for the figures and appropriate music for a treble instrument. The English country dance was imported into France during the early eighteenth-century and was performed by a column of men facing a column of women.

NOTES
Engraved throughout.

Chainlines vertical; no watermark found.

Signatures: [1] chiÂ.

SUBJECTS
Country-dances.
Solo instrument music.
Anglaise (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance notation--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

MEDIUM
11, [2], 3 p. : diagrams, music ; 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1796.A7 L36 1760

DIGITAL ID
musdi 246 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.246

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