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Book/Printed Material Prima, e seconda memoria per servire alla istoria del ballo degli antichi Memoria per la storia del ballo

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Title

  • Prima, e seconda memoria per servire alla istoria del ballo degli antichi

Other Title

  • Memoria per la storia del ballo

Summary

  • In this history of dance, Burette (1665-1747) presents an extensive discussion on Greek and Roman dance, basing his information on literary references such as the Iliad and authors such as Lucian. Included in the discussion are tragic and serious ballet, satire, and pantomime. While this text illuminates the importance of Greek and Roman influence on the arts of the mid-eighteenth century, modern dance scholars will find many interpretive and factual errors.

Names

  • Burette, M. (Pierre Jean), 1665-1747

Created / Published

  • In Venezia : [s.n.], 1746.

Headings

  • -  Dance--History--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance History and Theory
  • -  Theatrical Dance

Notes

  • -  Title vignette.
  • -  Previously published in the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Histoire, avec les Mémoires de littérature tirez des registres de cette Académie. Paris, 1736. t.I, p. 93-135.

Medium

  • 1 p. l., 33-44, 33-42 p. ; 25 x 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1607 .B8
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item B-152, Reel 36 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 09013370

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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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Chicago citation style:

Burette, M. Prima, E Seconda Memoria Per Servire Alla Istoria Del Ballo Degli Antichi. [In Venezia: s.n, 1746] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/09013370/.

APA citation style:

Burette, M. (1746) Prima, E Seconda Memoria Per Servire Alla Istoria Del Ballo Degli Antichi. [In Venezia: s.n] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/09013370/.

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Burette, M. Prima, E Seconda Memoria Per Servire Alla Istoria Del Ballo Degli Antichi. [In Venezia: s.n, 1746] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/09013370/>.