Courtly dance of the Renaissance : a new translation and edition of the Nobiltà di dame (1600) / Fabritio Caroso ; translated and edited by Julia Sutton ; music transcribed and edited by F. Marian Walker ; with the appendix, Italian Renaissance dance steps, a labanotation manual of dance step-types selected from Fabritio Caroso's Nobiltà di dame (1600) by Julia Sutton and Rachelle Palnick Tsachor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caroso, Fabritio.

Contributor:

Sutton, Julia.

Walker, F. Marian.

Standardized Title:

Nobiltà di dame. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Dance--Early works to 1800.

Dance.

Ballroom dancing--Early works to 1800.

Ballroom dancing.

Dance music.

Lute music.

Physical Description:

vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

Summary:

Renaissance classic includes choreography and music for 49 dances from the period 1550 to 1610, plus guidance on court dress and etiquette for men and women. Indispensable source of authentic information. Full scholarly apparatus. Translated and edited by Julia Sutton.

Notes:

"Revised, corrected and expanded republication of the work first published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, in 1986"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0486286193

OCLC:

32465461