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Curioses Reit-, Jagd-, Fecht-, Tanz- oder Ritter-Exercitien-Lexicon (Trichter, Leipzig 1742)
Publisher: Valentin Trichter (formerly Stallmeister/equerry-master at the University of Goettingen) / Verlegt Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1742. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB Munich) Res/Gymn 84, VD18 14748363-001 (urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10919099-5). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1742-Trichter-Curioses_(BSB).txt (17,419 lines OCR; clean machine-printed German Fraktur). Alphabetically-organized (Real-Lexicon) gentleman's-exercise dictionary covering riding (Reit), hunting (Jagd), fencing (Fecht), dance (Tanz), heraldry (Wappen-Kunst), and chivalric exercises (Ritter-Exercitien). Dance-section entries are extensive and include detailed Pas, Cadence, Reverence, and Pirouette discussion for the major French Baroque forms: ALLEMANDE (note 364: 'Sehet, wenn sie ein Tanz seyn soll, einem Rigaudon viel aehnlicher, als einer Allemande'), COURANTE (note 3836: 'die wesentlichen Fundamente und Requisita der ganzen Tantz-Uibung in der Courante enthalten'), SARABANDE, BOURREE (note 1750: 'die Bourree hat ordentlich einen Vier-Viertel-Tact'), GAVOTTE, MENUET (notes 2125-3697: extensive Pas-de-Menuet, Contretems, Pirouette, Cabriole-de-cote pedagogy), CHACONNE (note 2823, distinguished from Passacaille at length), RIGAUDON, CAPRIOLE / Entrechat / Pas-de-Bourree / Pas-de-Sissonne / Pas-Tombe / Pas-Tendu / Pas-Glisse. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the most substantial German-language Baroque dance-pedagogy reference of the 18th century, drawing explicitly on French (Feuillet/Rameau lineage), Italian, and German sources ('aus den besten Franzoesischen, Italienischen und Teutschen Scribenten zusammen getragen'). Documents the transmission of the French belle-danse pedagogical apparatus into the German chivalric-academy (Ritter-Akademie) curriculum, where dance was the first of the four equestrian-school exercises (the others being Fechten, Reiten, and Voltigieren). Has_Step_Detail = Partial (named-step pedagogy and Cadence are present in alphabetical entries; full per-step foot-direction / rise-and-fall / sway / CBM technical vocabulary is described prose-stylistically rather than in step-table format). Closes the German pre-Feuillet/early-Feuillet documentary gap between Pasch 1659/Praetorius 1612 (Italian/Italian-German Renaissance) and Taubert 1717 (German Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, already in corpus).Year: 1742Family: trichterCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Valentin Trichter (formerly Stallmeister/equerry-master at the University of Goettingen) / Verlegt Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1742. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB Munich) Res/Gymn 84, VD18 14748363-001 (urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10919099-5). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1742-Trichter-Curioses_(BSB).txt (17,419 lines OCR; clean machine-printed German Fraktur). Alphabetically-organized (Real-Lexicon) gentleman's-exercise dictionary covering riding (Reit), hunting (Jagd), fencing (Fecht), dance (Tanz), heraldry (Wappen-Kunst), and chivalric exercises (Ritter-Exercitien). Dance-section entries are extensive and include detailed Pas, Cadence, Reverence, and Pirouette discussion for the major French Baroque forms: ALLEMANDE (note 364: 'Sehet, wenn sie ein Tanz seyn soll, einem Rigaudon viel aehnlicher, als einer Allemande'), COURANTE (note 3836: 'die wesentlichen Fundamente und Requisita der ganzen Tantz-Uibung in der Courante enthalten'), SARABANDE, BOURREE (note 1750: 'die Bourree hat ordentlich einen Vier-Viertel-Tact'), GAVOTTE, MENUET (notes 2125-3697: extensive Pas-de-Menuet, Contretems, Pirouette, Cabriole-de-cote pedagogy), CHACONNE (note 2823, distinguished from Passacaille at length), RIGAUDON, CAPRIOLE / Entrechat / Pas-de-Bourree / Pas-de-Sissonne / Pas-Tombe / Pas-Tendu / Pas-Glisse. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the most substantial German-language Baroque dance-pedagogy reference of the 18th century, drawing explicitly on French (Feuillet/Rameau lineage), Italian, and German sources ('aus den besten Franzoesischen, Italienischen und Teutschen Scribenten zusammen getragen'). Documents the transmission of the French belle-danse pedagogical apparatus into the German chivalric-academy (Ritter-Akademie) curriculum, where dance was the first of the four equestrian-school exercises (the others being Fechten, Reiten, and Voltigieren). Has_Step_Detail = Partial (named-step pedagogy and Cadence are present in alphabetical entries; full per-step foot-direction / rise-and-fall / sway / CBM technical vocabulary is described prose-stylistically rather than in step-table format). Closes the German pre-Feuillet/early-Feuillet documentary gap between Pasch 1659/Praetorius 1612 (Italian/Italian-German Renaissance) and Taubert 1717 (German Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, already in corpus). (1742). Imported from local collection.