How to dance the revived ancient dances.
By: By Ardern Holt.
Publisher: H. Cox
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Dance; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals; Music for Dance
Description: Holt begins his discussion with a history of "chorography" and the work of famed eighteenth-century dancing masters and choreographers Guillaume-Louis Pecour, Pierre Beauchamps, and Raoul-Auger Feuillet. Several pages of dances written in the dance notation system devised by Feuillet are included. Holt's "reconstruction" of the pavan includes the appropriate music from Thoinot Arbeau's 1588 manual, Orchesographie. For decades, the inclusion of the notation and music was deceiving to many unsuspecting people who used Holt's manual to reconstruct dances for the Renaissance and Baroque. Holt's interpretations bear no resemblance to the originals; however, they do clearly illuminate the romanticized aura that began to surround such dances as the minuet during the nineteenth century. Line drawings and photographs enhance Holt's manual.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
Contains music.