FEUILLET, Raoul-Auger (1659 or 1660-1710). Recueil de Contredances mises en Chorégraphie d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre sans le secours d'aucun maïtre et même sans avoir eu aucune connoissance de la Chorégraphie . Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1706
FEUILLET, Raoul-Auger (1659 or 1660-1710). Recueil de Contredances mises en Chorégraphie d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre sans le secours d'aucun maïtre et même sans avoir eu aucune connoissance de la Chorégraphie . Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1706 16 o (144 x 90 mm). Engraved throughout with music and dance notation. Contemporary French mottled calf (minor wear to head of spine, corners rubbed, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION of "the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances, called contredanses (also spelled contredance) in France" (LC/ Dance Instruction Manuals ). Developed in 1700, Feuillet's system of notation is here applied to 32 new dances for four couples. The dances are preceded by a 28-page introduction containing detailed instruction adn examples of Feuillet's new system of choreography with notes on hand and feet positions. The dance music is printed at the top of the page, and the steps are marked off in a manner corresponding to the structure of the music. Performed as a series of figures by a column of men facing a column of women, the English country dance was a popular ballroom dance during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This manual was translated into English in 1710 by English dancing master and writer John Essex under the title For the further improvement of dancing . VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current only one copy has sold at auction in at least the last thirty years. Fletcher, Bibliographic descriptions of forty rare books relating to the art of dancing, in the collection of P. J. S. Richardson, O.B.E. 17; Leslie, pp. 165-66; Magriel, p. 98; New Grove , VI, p. 514.
FEUILLET, Raoul-Auger (1659 or 1660-1710). Recueil de Contredances mises en Chorégraphie d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre sans le secours d'aucun maïtre et même sans avoir eu aucune connoissance de la Chorégraphie . Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1706
FEUILLET, Raoul-Auger (1659 or 1660-1710). Recueil de Contredances mises en Chorégraphie d'une maniére si aisée, que toutes personnes peuvent facilement les apprendre sans le secours d'aucun maïtre et même sans avoir eu aucune connoissance de la Chorégraphie . Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1706 16 o (144 x 90 mm). Engraved throughout with music and dance notation. Contemporary French mottled calf (minor wear to head of spine, corners rubbed, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION of "the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances, called contredanses (also spelled contredance) in France" (LC/ Dance Instruction Manuals ). Developed in 1700, Feuillet's system of notation is here applied to 32 new dances for four couples. The dances are preceded by a 28-page introduction containing detailed instruction adn examples of Feuillet's new system of choreography with notes on hand and feet positions. The dance music is printed at the top of the page, and the steps are marked off in a manner corresponding to the structure of the music. Performed as a series of figures by a column of men facing a column of women, the English country dance was a popular ballroom dance during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This manual was translated into English in 1710 by English dancing master and writer John Essex under the title For the further improvement of dancing . VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current only one copy has sold at auction in at least the last thirty years. Fletcher, Bibliographic descriptions of forty rare books relating to the art of dancing, in the collection of P. J. S. Richardson, O.B.E. 17; Leslie, pp. 165-66; Magriel, p. 98; New Grove , VI, p. 514.
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