The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates /

The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates / Rameau, Pierre. Essex, John, tr. text London : Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton, M.DCC.XXVIII [1728] eng This is a translation of one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance--Pierre Rameau's 1725 Le maître a danser. Translated by English dancer and writer John Essex (c. 1680-1744), part one of the text and accompanying full-page plates carefully focus on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and describe a large vocabulary of steps. Part two covers use of the arms while dancing. This English translation was reissued in 1732. ESTC Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800. Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/muspre1800.100058