The Pastorall
Subtitle: Mr. Issac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth day 1713
By: the tune by Mr. Paisible ; engraven in characters and figures for the use of masters writ by Mr. Pemberton ...
Contributors: Paisible, James, 1656?-1721.
Publisher: Printed for I. Walsh ... and I. Hare
Published: 1713
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Dance -- Study and teaching -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Ballroom dancing -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Notation for Dance.; Music for Dance.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Pastoral
Description: This ballroom dance for one couple, preserved in Feuillet natation, was choreographed by English dancing master Mr. Isaac (c. 1640-c. 1720) to music composted by James Paisible (d. 1721). The fourteen couplet dance begins in 6/4 and changes to a hornpipe on the ninth couplet. The dance notation system, first published by dancing master Raoul-Auger Feuillet (1659 or 1660-1710), is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance. Additionally, bar lines in the dance score correspond to bar lines in the music score. Signs written on the right- or left-hand side of the tract indicate the steps. The dance was notated by dancing master E. Pemberton, who urged that all dancing masters who had not learned the "characters of dancing" (Feuillet notation) either through "prejudice or mistaken notions" should do so as "it is necessary as the notes of music."
Notes: RISM A/I, P 89.
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