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Libro di Gagliarda, Tordiglione, Passo e Mezzo, Canari e Passegi, et altri Balli (Livio Lupi, Palermo 1607)
Publisher: Livio Lupi da Caravaggio, Maestro di Ballo in Palermo / Appresso Carlo Bauca, Palermo, 1607 (second, expanded edition; first edition Palermo 1600 by Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi). With Privilege. Dedicated 'Al Molto Illustre Signore il Signore Girolamo Branciforti, Conte di Cammarata, Padre di Donna Maria del Carretto.' Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1607-Lupi-Libro_(SCA).txt (282KB OCR; early-17c Sicilian Italian typography with significant OCR degradation). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The principal Sicilian/Palermo Cinquecento dance treatise, contemporaneous with Caroso's Nobiltà di Dame (1600, H-REN-PAV-F0014 et al., LOC-1600-CAROSO) and Negri's Le Gratie d'Amore (1604, LOC-1604-NEGRI). Lupi's distinctive pedagogical contribution is the numbered Mutanze (variation) catalog for the four principal late-Cinquecento virtuosic dance forms: Gagliarda (cinque-passi variations, 50+ numbered entries including 'Cinque passi ordinari', variations with Capriola, Capriola spezzata, Trabucchetto, Fioretto, Balzetto, Salto tondo, Salto del fiocco, Groppo, Campanella, Zoppetto, Trillo, and rare combinations like Capriola intricciata/in quarta/in quinta); Tordiglione (triple-time twisting variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso 1581 Tordiglione H-REN-GAL-F0018); Passo e Mezzo (duple-time pavane-family variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso 1581 Passo e Mezzo H-REN-PAV-F0010); Canari (heel-and-toe stamping variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso Canario H-REN-GAL-F0016); and Passegi (extended-mutanze promenade-style variations). Lupi also publishes TWO SIGNED ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS dedicated to Donna Maria del Carretto, wife of Count Girolamo Branciforti of Cammarata: 'Vita Carretta — Balletto Bilanciato' (multi-tempo balletto, H-REN-BRA-F0268) and 'La Carretta — Cascarda' (lyric short-dance, H-REN-BRA-F0269). Fills the Sicilian/Palermo regional gap in the Renaissance ballo corpus (Caroso was Rome-centered; Negri was Milan-centered). Lupi's step-grammar vocabulary partially overlaps with, and partially diverges from, Caroso and Negri — providing Rosetta-stone evidence for the regional variation of the late-Cinquecento Italian ballo lexicon. Has_Step_Detail=Partial: Italian step-prose is present throughout the 282KB OCR but severely degraded by early-17c Sicilian typography and the Renaissance layout; individual step-tables for mutanze cannot be cleanly extracted without manual OCR correction. The four genre-level appearances (Gagliarda, Tordiglione, Passo e Mezzo, Canari) register the mutanze catalog at collection level, and the two signed original compositions are minted as new canonicals.Year: 1607Family: lupiCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Livio Lupi da Caravaggio, Maestro di Ballo in Palermo / Appresso Carlo Bauca, Palermo, 1607 (second, expanded edition; first edition Palermo 1600 by Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi). With Privilege. Dedicated 'Al Molto Illustre Signore il Signore Girolamo Branciforti, Conte di Cammarata, Padre di Donna Maria del Carretto.' Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1607-Lupi-Libro_(SCA).txt (282KB OCR; early-17c Sicilian Italian typography with significant OCR degradation). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The principal Sicilian/Palermo Cinquecento dance treatise, contemporaneous with Caroso's Nobiltà di Dame (1600, H-REN-PAV-F0014 et al., LOC-1600-CAROSO) and Negri's Le Gratie d'Amore (1604, LOC-1604-NEGRI). Lupi's distinctive pedagogical contribution is the numbered Mutanze (variation) catalog for the four principal late-Cinquecento virtuosic dance forms: Gagliarda (cinque-passi variations, 50+ numbered entries including 'Cinque passi ordinari', variations with Capriola, Capriola spezzata, Trabucchetto, Fioretto, Balzetto, Salto tondo, Salto del fiocco, Groppo, Campanella, Zoppetto, Trillo, and rare combinations like Capriola intricciata/in quarta/in quinta); Tordiglione (triple-time twisting variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso 1581 Tordiglione H-REN-GAL-F0018); Passo e Mezzo (duple-time pavane-family variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso 1581 Passo e Mezzo H-REN-PAV-F0010); Canari (heel-and-toe stamping variations; Rosetta anchor back to Caroso Canario H-REN-GAL-F0016); and Passegi (extended-mutanze promenade-style variations). Lupi also publishes TWO SIGNED ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS dedicated to Donna Maria del Carretto, wife of Count Girolamo Branciforti of Cammarata: 'Vita Carretta — Balletto Bilanciato' (multi-tempo balletto, H-REN-BRA-F0268) and 'La Carretta — Cascarda' (lyric short-dance, H-REN-BRA-F0269). Fills the Sicilian/Palermo regional gap in the Renaissance ballo corpus (Caroso was Rome-centered; Negri was Milan-centered). Lupi's step-grammar vocabulary partially overlaps with, and partially diverges from, Caroso and Negri — providing Rosetta-stone evidence for the regional variation of the late-Cinquecento Italian ballo lexicon. Has_Step_Detail=Partial: Italian step-prose is present throughout the 282KB OCR but severely degraded by early-17c Sicilian typography and the Renaissance layout; individual step-tables for mutanze cannot be cleanly extracted without manual OCR correction. The four genre-level appearances (Gagliarda, Tordiglione, Passo e Mezzo, Canari) register the mutanze catalog at collection level, and the two signed original compositions are minted as new canonicals. (1607). Imported from local collection.