Title: Abbregé de la nouvelle méthode dans l'art d'écrire ou de traçer toutes sortes de danses de ville
Description: The first part of this manual discusses performance of various steps including demi 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.
Subjects: Dance, Early works to 1800