Footprints of the Dance, An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennifer Nevile

Series:

Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe 8.

Drama and Theater in Early Modern Europe ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Dance--Study and teaching.

Belgium--Brussels.

Belgium.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Footprints of the Dance - An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook by Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master in Brussels. The dance master’s handwritten notebook contains unique material: a canon of dance figures and instructions for an exhibition with a pike; as well as signatures and general descriptions of his students, ballet plots and music associated with dancing. Reproduced for the first time are facsimile images of all the dance-related material, with transcriptions and translations of the ballet plots and instructions for the pike exhibition. The dance master is revealed as an active choreographer and performer, with strong ties to the French court musical establishment, and interested in fireworks and alchemy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Tables, Illustrations and Musical Examples

A Note on Transcriptions and Translations

Introduction

A Dance Master’s Notebook

Dance in Early Modern Europe

Ballet Plots, Dance Figures and Fireworks

Dance Teaching, Schools and Pupils

Danced Combat and the Pike Exhibition

Dance Music, Dance Songs and Airs de Cour

Conclusion

Facsimile of Dance-Related Material from S 253

Transcription and Translation of the Six Ballet Plots

The Pike Exhibition (ff. 94r-99v)

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

90-04-37773-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004377738 DOI