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ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English Country Dance s, such as those in the many editions of Playford's The Dancing Master . English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, and to all levels of society. See the article on English Country Dance for more information. FRENCH BAROQUE DANCE The great innovations in dance in the 17th-century originated at the French court under Louis XIV , and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of Classical Ballet . The same basic technique was used both at social events, and as theatrical dance in court ballets and at public theaters. The style of dance, commonly known to scholars as the ''French noble style'' or ''belle danse'' (French, literally "beautiful dance"), refers to the French dance style of court and theater. Over three hundred choreographies survive in Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation , as well as manuals by Raoul Auger Feuillet and Pierre Rameau in France, Kellom Tomlinson and John Weaver in England, and Gottfried Taubert in Germany. This wealth of evidence has allowed modern scholars and dancers to recreate the style, although areas of controversy still exist. The standard modern introduction is HiltonHilton, Wendy, ''Dance and Music of Court and Theater: Selected Writings of Wendy Hilton'' (Pendragon Press, 1997) ISBN 094519398X. Many of the dance types of the French baroque are familiar from Classical Music :
The English, working in the French style, added their own Hornpipe to this list. OTHER STYLES Other dance styles, such as the Italian and Spanish dances of the period are much less well studied than either English country dance or the French style. The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th-century, a style close to that of late Renaissance Dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts. Beyond this, the evolution and cross-fertilisation of dance styles is an area of ongoing research. REFERENCES Lancelot, Francine, ''La Belle Dance: Catalogue Raisonné'', (Van Dieren Editeur, 1996) ISBN 2-9111087-02-X Little, Meredith and Natalie Jenne, ''Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach'', (Indiana University Press, 1991, 2001) ISBN 0-253-33936-7 |
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