Orchesography: 16th-Century French Dance from Court to Countryside

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.

ISBN-13: 9780486217451

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Dover Publications

Publication Date: 08-18-2011

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

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 Show More