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La Madalena, danse nouvelle, dédiée à Son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le Duc de Mantoué, par Monsieur Feuillet, Maître de Danse, autheur de la Chorégraphie (Feuillet, Paris 1703)
Publisher: Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Maître de Danse de Paris, compositeur et notateur / Paris MDCCIII (1703) — chez l'Auteur, ruë de Buily (Bussy), Faux-bourg saint Germain, à la Cour Impériale, et chez Michel Brunet, dans la grande Salle du Palais, au Mercure Galand, avec Privilège du Roy. BNF Gallica scan. Single-dance dedicated pamphlet for La Madalena — composed AND notated by Feuillet (not a Pecour dance that Feuillet merely notated), a second rare autonomous-composer attestation for him after the 1702 Triomphante (LOC-1702-FEUILLET-TRIOMPHANTE). Dedicated to Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, last Duc de Mantoue (r.1665-1708), whose Pensionnaire the Demoiselle Magdeleine had been entrusted to Feuillet for perfection in dance — Feuillet's dedicatory letter claims the young dancer attained in three months a degree of perfection that would take another student 'plusieurs années' ('several years'), and that she now unites in a single person the qualities that normally constitute the merit of several excellent dancers. Fully notated in Feuillet notation at the source (step detail not transcribed at this pass).Year: 1703Family: feuillet-madalenaCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Maître de Danse de Paris, compositeur et notateur / Paris MDCCIII (1703) — chez l'Auteur, ruë de Buily (Bussy), Faux-bourg saint Germain, à la Cour Impériale, et chez Michel Brunet, dans la grande Salle du Palais, au Mercure Galand, avec Privilège du Roy. BNF Gallica scan. Single-dance dedicated pamphlet for La Madalena — composed AND notated by Feuillet (not a Pecour dance that Feuillet merely notated), a second rare autonomous-composer attestation for him after the 1702 Triomphante (LOC-1702-FEUILLET-TRIOMPHANTE). Dedicated to Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, last Duc de Mantoue (r.1665-1708), whose Pensionnaire the Demoiselle Magdeleine had been entrusted to Feuillet for perfection in dance — Feuillet's dedicatory letter claims the young dancer attained in three months a degree of perfection that would take another student 'plusieurs années' ('several years'), and that she now unites in a single person the qualities that normally constitute the merit of several excellent dancers. Fully notated in Feuillet notation at the source (step detail not transcribed at this pass). (1703). Step-by-step detail available. Imported from local collection.