De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii - 'On the Practice Or Art of Dancing''

Zusatztext should be immediately placed on all university and college shelves ... a careful and beautifully researched edition ... I cannot recommend this book more highly Klappentext This important new sourcebook is the first publication in simultaneous Italian and English translation of the important 1463 dance treatise "On the Practice or Art of Dancing" by Guglielmo Ebreo--William the Jew--dancing master at the most influential courts in Renaissance Italy. It includes choreographies and music for thirty-six dances, a theory of the dance (still valid today), and Guglielmo's first-hand account of the festivities in which he took part. Sparti has provided an extensive introduction, appendices containing significant theoretical, musical, and choreographic additions from a later copy, a bibliography, biographical notes, illustrations, and a glossary. Zusammenfassung This treatise, published here in both Italian and English, was written in 1463. It is the work of Guglielmo Ebreo - William the Jew - dancing master at one of the most influential courts in Renaissance Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Guglielmo Ebreo, Guglielmo Ebreo Of Pesaro, Guglielmo, Ebreo Da Pesaro Guglielmo, Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro
• Assisted by: Barbara Sparti (Editor), Barbara Sparti (Translation), Michael Sullivan (Translation), Barbara Sparti (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.1995
• EAN: 9780198165743
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816574-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history