Orchesographie, metode et teorie en forme de discours et tablature pour apprendre a dancer (Thoinot Arbeau, Lengres 1596 -- 3rd edition, posthumous)

Thoinot Arbeau (pseudonym of Jehan Tabourot, 1520-1595, Chanoine of Langres). BNF Gallica scan of the THIRD EDITION (Lengres: Iehan des Preyz Imprimeur & Libraire, 1596 -- printed AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY) of Orchesographie, metode et teorie en forme de discours et tablature pour apprendre a dancer, battre le tambour en toute sorte & diversite de batteries, jouer du fifre & arigot, tirer des armes & escrimer, avec autres honnestes exercices fort convenables a la jeunesse. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1596-Arbeau-Orchesographie_(BNF).txt (222KB OCR). EDITION CHAIN: 1588c first ed (LOC-1588C-ARBEAU = Arbeau editio princeps Lengres, Iehan des Preyz, attributed imprint) -> 1589 second ed (LOC-1589-ARBEAU = the BIBLIOGRAPHIC standard reference edition, Lengres, Iehan des Preyz, dated 1589) -> 1596 third ed (THIS IMPRINT, Lengres, Iehan des Preyz, posthumous reissue 1y after Arbeau's death March 1595). The 1596 edition is a re-issue: same setting of types for the dialogue between Arbeau and his pupil Capriol, same choreographic-tablature engravings, same vocal-and-instrumental-tablature pages. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: (1) the POSTHUMOUS REISSUE testifies to enduring demand for Arbeau's pedagogical-Renaissance-treatise after the author's death; (2) the LENGRES-PROVINCIAL-PRINTER continuity (Iehan des Preyz, all three editions) documents 8-year sustained provincial-press dance-publication continuity in a small Champagne-region cathedral-city, 175 km southeast of Paris; (3) MULTI-EDITION ROSETTA validation: every named dance of the 1589 LOC-1589-ARBEAU corpus re-attests in the 1596 edition (40 canonical-figures across H-REN-PAV/GAL/BRA/VOL/ALL), confirming 7-year stability of the pre-Caroso French-school Renaissance dance vocabulary; (4) the 1596-Arbeau is the LAST edition of Orchesographie before the 17th-century shift away from Arbeau's Renaissance vocabulary toward the Beauchamp-Pecour-Feuillet Baroque noble-dance vocabulary that would dominate French dance pedagogy 1700-1789. Has_Step_Detail = Partial: includes Arbeau's choreographic-tablature notation for the branles, gaillarde, and other named dances (the same notation as in 1589). Registered with 0 NEW canonicals and 40 Rosetta appearances cloning the LOC-1589-ARBEAU named-dance set across H-REN-PAV (4 figs: Basse-Dance, Pavane, Pavane d'Espagne, Canaries), H-REN-GAL (8 figs: Gaillarde + 5 named-tune Gaillardes + Le Tordion), H-REN-BRA (25 figs: 23 Branles incl Branle-Double, Coupes, Mimed, Doulx-Branles + Gavotte + Morisques), H-REN-VOL (1 fig: La Volte), H-REN-ALL (2 figs: L'Allemande, La Courante). Together with LOC-1588C-ARBEAU and LOC-1589-ARBEAU, this completes the Arbeau Orchesographie tri-edition Rosetta chain.