Recueil des plus beaux airs accompagnes de chansons a dancer, ballets, chansons folatres et bachanales, autrement dites Vaudevire (Caen 1615, Jacques Mangeant)

Dance manual/reference by Caen 1615 (Jacques Mangeant). Recueil des plus beaux airs accompagnes de chansons a dancer, ballets, chansons folatres et bachanales, autrement dites Vaudevire, non encores Imprimes. Ausquelles Chansons l'on a mis la Musique de leur chant, afin que chacun les puisse chanter et dancer le tout a une seule voix. Caen, chez Jacques Mangeant, M.DC.XV = 1615. With an appended 'Recueil des plus belles chansons des comediens francois, en ce comprins les airs de plusieurs ballet qui ont este faits de nouveau a la Cour avec la Bourree'. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1615-Mangeant-Recueil_(BNF).txt (92 KB OCR; moderate-to-good OCR of early-17c Norman French provincial-imprint). STRUCTURE: (I) AV LECTEVR preface by Jacques Mangeant on the difficulty of composing 'chansons-a-dancer' with correct mesure-et-rime, and on his plan to issue a forthcoming companion-volume of airs-et-Ballets mis-a-quatre-parties; (II) 56+ tune-and-text entries organized by DANCE-TYPE rubric: BRANLE DOUBLE (the dominant genre, ~20 distinct Branle-Double tunes), BRANLE DOUBLE LEGER (lighter-tempo variant, ~10 tunes), BRANLE SIMPLE, BRANLE DE VILLAGE (+ Branle-de-Village-finale), BRANLE DE BRETAIGNE, each with full musical-incipit + multi-strophe song-text; (III) LA TABLE -- alphabetical table of first-lines with page-numbers; (IV) APPENDED COMEDIENS-FRANCOIS section = AIRS DE PLVSIEVRS BALLETS QVI ONT ESTE FAITS DE NOVVEAV A LA COVR AVEC LA BOURREE, containing: Air du Ballet des Muses fait devant le Roy ('Toujours l'heur et la gloire'), further Ballet airs (Ballet-46 through Ballet-57 including 'Bande des cornets / mesdames cornues', 'Bergere sur l'herbette', and other bucolic-bergerie-themes), concluding with a LA BERGERE / LA BOVRREE pastoral-duet finale antiphonally alternating voices. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: (1) EARLIEST FRENCH-CAEN / NORMANDY-PROVINCIAL DANCE-MUSIC PRINT in the LOD corpus, completing the Arbeau-1589-Lengres / Caen-1615 provincial-publisher axis. (2) VAUDEVIRE TITLE-PAGE ATTESTATION from Val-de-Vire / Olivier Basselin lineage -- earliest CAEN-IMPRINT attestation of the term. (3) BOURREE-A-LA-COUR ATTESTATION: the 'Airs-de-Ballets-faits-de-nouveau-a-la-Cour AVEC LA BOURREE' section is the EARLIEST LOD-CORPUS attestation of the BOURREE as a COURT-BALLET DANCE, 21y BEFORE Mersenne 1636 Harmonie-Universelle codification and 8y BEFORE LOC-1623-LAUZE (whose Preface regional-dance survey does NOT list the Bourree). (4) BALLET-DES-MUSES PROTO-ATTESTATION: 'Air du Ballet des Muses fait devant le Roy' pre-dates by 51y Lully-Moliere-Benserade's 1666-1667 Ballet des Muses at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. (5) BRANLE-GENRE TAXONOMY CONFIRMATION: Mangeant's rubric-taxonomy 26y-after-Arbeau cross-confirms the Arbeau 1589 Branle-system and provides a provincial-Caen parallel to Lauze 1623's 1623 taxonomy 8y downstream. (6) NORMAN VAUDEVIRE / BERGERE-BOURREE PASTORAL-DUET: closing antiphonal-duet form prefigures Lully-Moliere's 1670 Bourgeois-Gentilhomme pastoral finale (55y downstream). Has_Step_Detail=None: this is a MUSIC + SONG-TEXT songbook for dancing; the chansons are meant to be sung WHILE dancing (par les-mesmes-voix qui dancent) but the book contains no prose step-pedagogy (no Beauchamp-Feuillet by 85y, no Arbeau-style tabulations either). For step-pedagogy consult parallel LOC-1589-ARBEAU (26y-upstream) and LOC-1623-LAUZE (8y-downstream). (1615). Imported from local collection.