Title: Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta
First published: 1600
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.
Subjects: Dance, Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals, Dance music, Duets (Unspecified instrument and continuo), Early works to 1800, Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc, Music for Dance, Lute music
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: MT950 .C25 1600