Orchesography: Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue - Brossura

Arbeau, Thoinot

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486217450 ISBN 13: 9780486217451

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2003

Riassunto

Generally regarded as the most valuable book on 16th-century dance and music available, this volume offers detailed instructions for all of the steps involved in pavans, gavottes, galliards, and more. References to the practices of instrumental music of the 1500s appear throughout the text, in addition to 47 dance tunes with period barring and notation. 44 illustrations.

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L'autore:

Thoinot Arbeau is an anagram of Jehan Tabourot (1519-95), a French cleric who strongly advocated dance for purposes of exercise, courtship and "manly display," declaring it as virile a pursuit as fencing and military marching.

Contenuti:

Editor's Introduction to the Dover Edition Preface to the First Edition Bibliography (to the First Edition) Original Title Page Original Publisher's Note Orchesography: A Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue Original Certificate of Copyright Translator's Notes Editor's Notes to Dover Edition Bibliography (Dover Edition) Introduction to the Labanotation Labanotation Index

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486217450
• ISBN 13: 9780486217451
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 266