[PDF] Orchesography eBook

Author : Thoinot Arbeau
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0486217450

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The most valuable resource for 16th-century dances and dance music, this volume describes galliards, pavans, branles, gavottes, lavolta, basse dance, morris dance, and more, with detailed instructions of steps. 44 illustrations.

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1580442617

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An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.

Author : Lynsey McCulloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190873493

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Shakespeare's texts have a long and close relationship with many different types of dance, from dance forms referenced in the plays to adaptations across many genres today. With contributions from experienced and emerging scholars, this handbook provides a concise reference on dance as both an integral feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and as a means of translating Shakespearean text into movement - a process that raises questions of authorship and authority, cross-cultural communication, semantics, embodiment, and the relationship between word and image. Motivated by growing interest in movement, materiality, and the body, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance is the first collection to examine the relationship between William Shakespeare - his life, works, and afterlife - and dance. In the handbook's first section - Shakespeare and Dance - authors consider dance within the context of early modern life and culture and investigate Shakespeare's use of dance forms within his writing. The latter half of the handbook - Shakespeare as Dance - explores the ways that choreographers have adapted Shakespeare's work. Chapters address everything from narrative ballet adaptations to dance in musicals, physical theater adaptations, and interpretations using non-Western dance forms such as Cambodian traditional dance or igal, an indigenous dance form from the southern Philippines. With a truly interdisciplinary approach, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance provides an indispensable resource for considerations of dance and corporeality on Shakespeare's stage and the early modern era.

Author : Raoul-Auger Feuillet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Unleash the magic of movement with 'Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing' by Raoul Auger Feuillet. Step into a world where every motion tells a story, as Feuillet, a visionary French dance notator and choreographer, unveils the artistry of dance in his groundbreaking treatise. Through his renowned Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system, Feuillet offers an intricate and precise method to capture the elegance and grace of dance for future generations.

Author : John Weaver
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2016-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781530722594

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : Ian Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351546724

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This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. ? Part One centres on the manuscript sources which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography.? In viewing the Almain within its broader historical context, Ian Payne throws new light on the dance, arguing that, together with the ?measures? which accompany it in the choreographies, it owes an even greater debt to the English country dance than has hitherto been acknowledged, a popular style that received its fullest expression in Playford's English Dancing Master of 1651. ? The second part of the book focuses on the dances themselves. The steps are described in detail and reconstructions provided for the nine Almains and some of the other measures included in the manuscripts. Part Three comprises a complete critical edition of the manuscripts. ? These easily performable versions of the dances will be an invaluable aid to those wishing to learn the dances, reconstruct them for stagings of Shakespeare's plays or Jacobean masques, and for dance historians.