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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Arte de danzar a la francesa, adornado con quarenta figuras, que enseñan el modo de hacer todos los diferentes passos de la danza del minuete, con todas sus reglas, y de conducir los brazos en cada passo: Y en quatro figuras, el modo de danzar los tres passapies. Tambien estàn escritos en solfa, para que qualquier musico los sepa tañer. Su autor Pablo Minguet e Irol ... Añadido en esta tercera impression todos los passos, ò movimientos del danzar à la española ...

Minguet é Irol, Pablo, d. 1801?

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Madrid, P. Minguet, en su casa, 1737?]

SUMMARY
Published in 1758 by engraver, writer, and translator Minguet é Irol, this manual incorporates sections of Raoul-Auger Feuillet's Chorégraphie (Paris, 1700) and Pierre Rameau's Le Maître de danser (Paris, 1725), although neither author is credited. Part one describes feet positions and the manner of managing one's hat, and provides a large vocabulary of steps used in eighteenth-century dance technique. Part two includes dances by Feuillet and French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour. The third section discusses contredances. The last and most interesting part, dated 1764, gives descriptions for forty-five steps used in Spanish dance.

NOTES
Contains music.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance--Spain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

MEDIUM
4 p.l., 72 p. illus., diagrs. 14 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .M6

DIGITAL ID
musdi 118 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.118

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