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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
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++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT125444A reissue of the 1728 edition with new
initial bifolium containing recommendatory notices on the verso of
the first leaf. In this issue most of the plates are signed: "G:
Alsop delin: " or "G: A: delin."London: printed, and sold by him
i.e. J. Essex] at his house in Rood-Lane; and J. Brotherton, 1731.
4], iii-xxxii,160p., plates; 4
Pierre Rameau's Le Maitre a Danser is the standard work on the
technique of eighteenth century dancing. It was first published in
Paris in 1725, and bore the printed recommendation of the
celebrated dancer and maitre de ballet Louis Pecour. As a guide to
contemporary social etiquette in the ballroom, the dances that were
in vogue, the various steps and arm movements that were in use and
how they were executed, Rameau's book is an invaluable source of
information. For although the eighteenth century saw the
publication of a number of books on dancing which record the steps
and arm movements used in contemporary dances, they do not explain
how the steps were to be carried out, and this information was
first made available in Le Maitre a Danser. This edition is a
facsimile of the translation made by the great dance scholar and
historian Cyril Beaumont, and first published by him in book form
in 1931.
The first part of this manual, first published in 1725, discusses
the performance of various steps including demi coupe, bouree,
chasse, and pirouette. Through the use of text and tables, Rameau
also provides discussion on an improved and simplified version of
Feuillet notation, the eighteenth-century system of recording
dances. The second part of the text consists of notations for
twelve duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer,
Guillaume-Louis Pecour. The text is entirely in French, with many
examples in Feuillet notation.
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