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
Dancing-master
Art of dancing explained
Maître à danser. English. 1728
Rameau, Pierre.
Essex, John,
tr
text
enk
1728
monographic
London
Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton
M.DCC.XXVIII [1728]
eng
fre
xxxii, 160 p. : front., 56 pl. (part fold.) ; 25 cm.
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.
Done from the French of Monsieur Rameau, by J. Essex.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
Dance
Handbooks, manuals, etc
Early works to 1800
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
GV1590 .R4
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.143
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/muspre1800.100058
ESTC
N44660
10030397
hdl:loc.music/musdi.143
hdl:loc.music/muspre1800.100058
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