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Title

  • Trattato teorico-prattico di ballo

Other Title

  • Vol. 2 has title: Trattato di ballo teorico-prattico
  • Trattato di ballo teorico-prattico

Summary

  • This manual represents one of the most important sources on dance technique for the second half of the eighteenth century and is a critical link between Baroque dance and early romantic ballet. Part one is divided into sixty sections describing various aspects of dance beginning with a statement on the utility of dance, and feet positions. The manual continues with descriptions of many steps, for example, four types of battemens, nine types of pas de bourrée, balloté, fouetté, and twenty-three types of cabriole. Also included is extensive information on late eighteenth-century grotesque style, especially important for the study of Italian pantomime. Part two discusses the responsibilities of a dancing master and manner of performing the minuet. The manual concludes with instructions for thirty-nine contradanze (contredanses), including one dance that is arranged for thirty-two performers.

Names

  • Magri, Gennaro, active 1779

Created / Published

  • Napoli : V. Orsino, M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance music--History and criticism
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Theatrical Dance
  • -  Notation for Dance
  • -  Music for Dance
  • -  Italy--Naples

Notes

  • -  The engraved plates consist of diagrammed dances, most with accompanying dance music, which was composed by Magri, De Dominicis, Di Gennaro, Giuliano, A. Montoro, F. Piombanti, G. Rava, Sangro di S. Severo, and Scotti.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 2 v. in 1. : 22 pl. (part fold.) ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .M3
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item M-008, Reel 115 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 12012085

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Magri, Gennaro, Active 1779. Trattato Teorico-Prattico DI Ballo. [Napoli: V. Orsino, M.DCC.LXXIX, 1779] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/12012085/.

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Magri, G. (1779) Trattato Teorico-Prattico DI Ballo. [Napoli: V. Orsino, M.DCC.LXXIX] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/12012085/.

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Magri, Gennaro, Active 1779. Trattato Teorico-Prattico DI Ballo. [Napoli: V. Orsino, M.DCC.LXXIX, 1779] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/12012085/>.