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Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical : lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing (choregraphy) with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores / translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn; edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe ...

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Boston, Mass. : The Heintzemann Press. 1905.Description: 302 p. : ill., music ; 28 cmUniform titles:
  • Grammatik der Tanzkunst. English
Subject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
Summary: The first edition of Zorn's book was published in Leipzig in 1887 under the title Grammatik der Tanzkunst; later it was translated into English and Russian. Through text and Zorn's innovative dance notation system, the manual covers positions of the feet, preparatory exercises, arm movements, and step terminology of mid-nineteenth-century ballet. Several quadrille figures are notated as well as the minuet, gavotte, and numerous waltz, polka, and galop steps. A volume of music that includes over one hundred melodies to accompany the steps, exercise, and dances accompanies this edition.
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Translated by Benjamin P. Coates.

The first edition of Zorn's book was published in Leipzig in 1887 under the title Grammatik der Tanzkunst; later it was translated into English and Russian. Through text and Zorn's innovative dance notation system, the manual covers positions of the feet, preparatory exercises, arm movements, and step terminology of mid-nineteenth-century ballet. Several quadrille figures are notated as well as the minuet, gavotte, and numerous waltz, polka, and galop steps. A volume of music that includes over one hundred melodies to accompany the steps, exercise, and dances accompanies this edition.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.

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