Le répertoire des bals
Subtitle: ou Theorie-pratique des contredanses, décrites d'une maniere aisée avec des figures démonstratives pour les pouvoir danser facilement, auxquelles on a ajouté les airs notés.
By: Par le sr. de La Cuisse ...
Publisher: Cailleau [etc.]
Published: 1762
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Country-dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Country-dances.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Notation for Dance.; Music for Dance.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Theorie-pratique des contredanses
Description: This is a bound collection of contredanses, figured group dances for four or more couples that were popular during the last half of the eighteenth century. Each dance is described on four pages: a title page that gives the name of the dance and its choreographer, a page of text describing the figure, a page showing the floor pattern of the dance, and a final page for the music.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
Engraved throughout; line borders.
Imprint varies.
Vol. 1 is in 2 parts. The second part has special t.-p.: Suite du Répertoire des bals, ou recueil de contredanses. Par le s. de La Cuisse. Paris, Melle Castagnery, 1762. The same title occurs in v. 2-3, following the special t.-p. indicated below.
Vols. 2-3 have title: Suite du Répertoire des bals, ou II.eme [-3.e] volume du recueil des airs et figures des meilleures et plus nouvelles contredanses ...
The dances are in <18   > "cahiers" or <100   > "feuilles," each dance constituting a "feuille" (with special t.-p., v. 2-3). These were issued both separately and in volumes.
LC copy imperfect: pages 17-24 of v. 1 misplaced in binding.