The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method : being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Tomlinson, Kellom.

Series:

Pre-1801 books about music and related topics in the Library of Congress collections as listed in RISM ; Reel 200, item T-045.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Dance.

Minuet (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Minuet (Dance).

Genre:

Early works.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

12 preliminary leaves, 159 pages : portrait ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Art of dancing explain'd

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author, 1735.

Summary:

The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.

Notes:

The fontispiece is dated 1754.

Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate.

Microfilm. [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1982. 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm. (Pre-1801 books about music and related topics in the Library of Congress collections as listed in RISM ; Reel 200, item T-045) Reproduced from a copy in the Library of Congress; other titles on reel.

OCLC:

1103919614