Abbregé de la nouvelle methode, dans l'art d'écrire ou de traçer toutes sortes de danses de ville ...
By: mise au jour par le Sr. Rameau ... Ouvrage très utile pour toutes personnes qui ont sçu ou qui apprennent à danser, puis que par le secour de ce livre, on peut se remettre facilement dans toutes les danses que l'on à appris ...
Contributors: Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729.
Publisher: Chez l'auteur, faubourg St Germain [etc.
Published: 1725
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Dance.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Notation for Dance.; Music for Dance.
Other titles: Abregé de la nouv. choregraphie
Description: The first part of this manual discusses performance of various steps including demi coupé, coupé, bourée, chassé, and pirouette. Through the use of text and tables, Rameau also provides discussion on an improved and simplified version of Feuillet notation, the eighteenth-century system of recording dances. The second part of the text consists of notations for twelve duets choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
LC copy imperfect: p. 29-30 of pt. 1 wanting.
Privilege dated 1725.
No. 73 apparently omitted in paging of pt. 1.
Part 2, engraved throughout, has title: Seconde partie contenant douze des plus belles danses de Monsieur Pecour ... et remis en choregraphie suivant la nouvelle correction et augmentation du sr. Rameau ... (The air for each dance is given at top of page).