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

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

Orchesography: 16th-Century French Dance from Court to Countryside
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Author: Thoinot Arbeau
Compiler: Mireille Backer
Translator: Mary Stewart Evans
Introduction: Julia Sutton
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1967
ISBN: 0486217450
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Book Review: A great resource for Renaissance French dance
Summary: 5 Stars

A book to have if you're interested in Renaissance dance and which is especially useful for beginning dance reconstruction as it's quite accessible. It contains a translation of the whole text by Thoinot Arbeau (published in 1589) translated into English, plus notes and a set of modern notation for the dances. The text is structured as a dialogue between an old dancing master and his young student and contains descriptions of steps, various dance trivia and some social context info, and usually the music, coreography and possible variations (though not all of these for every dance). Many of these dances will be known to dancers of early music yet you could be surprised to learn that many so-called Arbeau dances do not follow his text much. Additionally there's quite a scope for improvisation along the guidelines given. The dances include many branles, a couple of pavanes and basse dances, tourdion and galliard variations, etc.

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