TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rameau,Pierre
AU  - Essex,John
TI  - The dancing-master: or, the art of dancing explained: wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... 
PY  - 1728///
CY  - London
PB  - Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton
KW  - Dance
KW  - Instruction
KW  - Eighteenth century
N2  - This is a translation of one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance: Pierre Rameau's 1725 Le maître a danser. Translated by English dancer and writer John Essex (c. 1680-1744), part one of the text and accompanying full-page plates carefully focus on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and describe a large vocabulary of steps. Part two covers use of the arms while dancing. This English translation was reissued in 1732
UR  - https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.143
ER  -