Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta
Subtitle: libro, altra volta, chiamato Il ballarino. Nuouamente dal proprio auttore corretto, ampliato di nuoui balli, di belle regole, & alla perfetta theorica ridotto: con le creanze necessarie à caualieri, e dame. Aggiontoui il basso, & il soprano della musica: & con l'intauolatura del liuto à ciascun ballo. Ornato di vaghe & bellissime figure in rame ...
Contributors: Franco, Giacomo, 1550-1620.
Publisher: Presso il Muschio
Published: 1600
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Dance music -- 17th century.; Duets (Unspecified instrument and continuo) -- 17th century.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Music for Dance.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Nobiltà di dame; Ballarino
Description: In this significant manual detailing late-Renaissance Italian court dance, dancing master Caroso redefines and, in some cases, corrects information found in his first treatise, Il ballarino (1581). The manual gives rules for sixty-eight steps and contains specific choreographies for forty-nine dances. Many dances are preceded by full-page illustrations and each dance is provided with appropriate music written in Italian lute tablature and/or mensural notation. This manual was reissued in 1630 under the title, Raccolata di variji balli.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
Title within engraved architectural border ornamented with vignettes of instrumentalists, a portrait of the author, etc. Head- and tailpieces; initials. The illustrations consist of 10 full-page engravings by Giacomo Franco; 8 of them, figures of dancers, occur from 2 to 7 times each.
Part 2 has special half-title: Della Nobilta di dame ... libro secondo, nelquale s'insegnano varie sorti di balletti, cascarde, tordiglione, passo e mezzo, pauaniglia, canario, & gagliarde ...
The music, through p. 148, is in both tablature and ordinary notation; throughout the rest of the book, in tablature only.
Second edition; 1st edition published 1581 under title: Il ballarino. A reissue of the 2d edition, entitled "Raccolta di varij balli fatti in occorenze di nozze, e festini" appeared in 1630.
Page 200 misnumbered 100.