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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2014
This paper announces a forthcoming bibliography for dance scholars and details some of the major sources it will list. The publication originated as a bibliography for a course on French music and dance taught at the University of California, Riverside, by Dr. Judith Schwartz, Wendy Hilton (guest artist), and the author. It has since taken on larger dimensions, including the cooperation of another scholar, Dr. Meredith Little of Stanford University. The collaborators sought to develop a definitive bibliography on French dance of the period 1643-1793.
The bibliography will be published by Joseph Boonin, Inc., in the series Music Indexes and Bibliographies, George R. Hill, General Editor. The full title is French Court Dance and Dance Music during the Reigns of Louis XIV-Louis XVI: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources. Part I contains printed and manuscript collections of notated chorégraphies, and an index of musical incipits for notated chorégraphies. Part II contains writings about dance and dance notation. Part III contains writings about dance music, with a selective list of composers of dance music in the French manner.
Editor's note: This article has been developed from Dr. Schlundt's presentation at the Fifth CORD Conference, Philadelphia, November 11–14, 1976.
1. Chorégraphie, any book of dances notated or manuals on the notation system by Beauchamps–Feuillet.
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8. Claude Fancois Ménestrier, (Paris, 1682).
9. (Lyons, 1669).
10. (Paris).
11. (Nuremberg: Johann Georg Puschner and Johann Wolrab, 1716).
12. Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, Chorégraphie ou l'art de décrire la dance (Paris: Feuillet, 1700;Google Scholar reprint, New York: Broude Bros., 1968).
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14. (London: J. Brotherton & W. Meadows, 1721).
15. (London: Roberts, 1728).
16. (London: W. Mears & J. Browne, 1717).
17. (New York: New York Public Library, 1960).
18. (Paris, 1723; Slatkine, 1969).
19. Louis de Cahusac (The Hague).
20. (Paris, 1719).
21. (Paris).
22. Jacob Friedrich von Bielfeld (Leiden).
23. Marian Hannah Winter, (London: Pitman, 1974).
24. (Amsterdam, 1735-49).
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26. Jacques-Bernard Durey de Noinville, (Paris, 1753).
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