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Orchesography

by Raoul-Auger Feuillet

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Author
Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1660?-1710
Title
Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures
Credits
Produced by Tobin Richard, Debra Storr, Greg Lindahl and PG Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
Subject
Dance -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
eBook-No.
9454
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9454
Release Date
December 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.ORCHESOGRAPHY. — ART OF DANCING, — Characters and Demonstrative Figures . — The whole Art is explain’d; with compleat Tables of all Steps us’d in Dancing , and Rules for the Motions of the Arms — Any person (who understands Dancing ) may of himself learn all manner of Dances . — An Exact and Just Translation from the French of Monsieur Feuillet .
  3. 3.By JOHN WEAVER, Dancing-Master .
  4. 4.To Mr. Isaac. — SIR,
  5. 5.PREFACE.
  6. 6.A List of the Dancing-Masters , — Subscribers to this Undertaking. — ERRATA.
  7. 7.Orchesography. — The ART of DANCING — Characters and Demonstrative Figures.
  8. 8.Of the Stage, Room, or School.
  9. 9.The Presence of the Body.
  10. 10.Of the Tract.
  11. 11.Of the Positions.
  12. 12.Of true Positions.
  13. 13.Of false Positions.
  14. 14.Of Steps.
  15. 15.A Demonstration of all the Steps which have been before explain’d.
  16. 16.Steps may have Several Marks.
  17. 17.How to place the Marks in their proper Order.
  18. 18.Observations upon Springings.
  19. 19.Of Springing Steps.
  20. 20.Of marking the Positions.
  21. 21.Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.
  22. 22.Of waving Positions, and half Positions.
  23. 23.Of Positions and half Positions, which are wav’d and unwav’d.
  24. 24.Of the Change of Positions.
  25. 25.a TABLE of the shifting of the True Positions
  26. 26.a TABLE of the shifting of the False Positions
  27. 27.a TABLE of the Changing true positions into false positions
  28. 28.a TABLE of Shifting from false positions to true positions
  29. 29.Of Positions that shift or change from one place to another.
  30. 30.Of the Changing of waving Positions. — The Changing of Waving Positions .
  31. 31.How to hold the Book or Paper, to decipher written Dances
  32. 32.Rules to be observ’d in Dancing by written Characters.
  33. 33.How to know what Steps and half Positions are with the right Foot, and what with the left.
  34. 34.The manner of Steps crossing one another .
  35. 35.To return upon a Tract you have just before mov’d on.
  36. 36.To know to and from what Positions, Steps move .
  37. 37.How Steps terminate in Positions .
  38. 38.Of simple and compound Steps.
  39. 39.The Tables.
  40. 40.Dancing — Courant Movements And Galliard step.
  41. 41.a TABLE of half Coupees
  42. 42.TABLE of half Coupees
  43. 43.TABLE of half Coupees
  44. 44.TABLE of half Coupees
  45. 45.TABLE of half Coupees .
  46. 46.TABLE of Coupeés .
  47. 47.TABLE of Coupees
  48. 48.TABLE of Coupees
  49. 49.TABLE of Coupees
  50. 50.TABLE of Coupees
  51. 51.TABLE of Coupees .
  52. 52.TABLE of Coupees
  53. 53.TABLE of Coupees .
  54. 54.TABLE of Coupees .
  55. 55.Bouree steps or Fleurets
  56. 56.TABLE of Bouree’s.
  57. 57.TABLE of Bouree’s.
  58. 58.TABLE of Bouree’s.
  59. 59.TABLE of Bouree’s
  60. 60.TABLE of Bouree’s
  61. 61.TABLE of Bouree’s
  62. 62.TABLE of Bouree’s
  63. 63.Bounds and Tac’s
  64. 64.TABLE of Bounds
  65. 65.TABLE of Bounds
  66. 66.A TABLE of Compos’d Hops or Contretemps.
  67. 67.TABLE of Contretemps
  68. 68.TABLE of Contretemps
  69. 69.TABLE of Contretemps
  70. 70.TABLE of Contretemps
  71. 71.TABLE of Contretemps.
  72. 72.Chassés or Drises.
  73. 73.Chassees and Falling steps.
  74. 74.Sissonnes or Cross leaps
  75. 75.Piroüettes.
  76. 76.TABLE of Piroüettes.
  77. 77.Capers and half Capers.
  78. 78.TABLE of Capers.
  79. 79.Entrechats or Cross Capers
  80. 80.TABLE of Waving Steps
  81. 81.Finis.
  82. 82.Suplement of Steps.
  83. 83.Of Time, Measure, or Cadence.
  84. 84.Of the Figure.
  85. 85.Some Rules to be observed in the Figures of Dances.
  86. 86.For giving the Hands in Dancing .
  87. 87.Of the Movement of the Arms.
  88. 88.Where to place the Motion of the Arms on the Tract.
  89. 89.Examples of the Movements of the Arms.
  90. 90.Some Rules to be observed in writing of Dances. — FINIS.

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