[The code of Terpsichore.
Subtitle: The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times ...
By: by C. Blasis ... Translated under the author's immediate inspection by R. Barton]
Contributors: Barton, R., tr.
Publisher: E. Bull
Published: 1830
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Dance -- History; Dance music; Piano music; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals; Theatrical Dance; Music for Dance
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Art of dancing
Description: This is one of several books written by Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Blasis (1803-1878). It covers the history and theory of dance, pantomime, the composition of ballets, and contains a section devoted to social dances entitled "private dancing." Although much of the discussion on technique is identical to Blasis' earlier treatise, Traité élémentaire théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse (1820), the manual is a comprehensive survey of ballet during the early nineteenth-century.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
On spine: Code of Terpsichore. By C. Blasis ... With seventeen plates; illustrating upwards of sixty positions. With original quadrilles and waltzes. Arranged for the piano-forte.
Barton's English translation of Code complet de la danse, which was subsequently translated into French by Paul Vergnaud under title: Manuel complet de la danse.
"Programmes, containing examples of every species of ballets. Composed by C. Blasis": p. 259-484.
L.C. copy imperfect: t.-p. wanting; title supplied from the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale.