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| 1519 births | |
| 1595 deaths | |
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A dance manuscript written by Tabourot was published in 1588 , and reprinted in 1589 and 1596 . This manual contains detailed instructions for numerous styles of dance ( Branle , Galliard , Pavane , Tourdion ), as well as short sections about military music, drumming, and marching, and a few details about dance forms such as the Morisco (whence the English Morris Dance ), the Canary (reputed to be from the Canary Islands ), the Allemande , Courante , and Basse Danse . This manual, '' Orchésographie '' (Orchesography), is a major source of information about Renaissance Dance . It is available online in facsimile and in plain text, and there is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications . It contains numerous Woodcut s of dancing and musicians, and also includes many dance Tabulation s in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes (though this is misrepresented in some modern editions), a significant innovation in Dance Notation at that time. EXTERNAL LINKS
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