Historical SourcePublic Domain
Contradanzas Francesas / Contradanzas Inglesas, con sus Musicas y explicacion de todas figuras (Anon., Madrid c.1751)
Publisher: Anonymous Spanish-court-ballroom contradanza collection, Madrid c.1751 (undated title-page but internally dated by BNE cataloging to the early 1750s based on engraving style and paper watermark). Source: BNE (Biblioteca Nacional de España) scan. DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1751-Contradanzas_(BNE).txt (576 lines OCR; Spanish 18c print with heavy long-s, ligature, and engraved-music plate-overlap corruption on title plates; closing 'Diferencias' glossary pages clean OCR). STRUCTURE: title-plate + 'Contradanzas Francesas' section (~30 French-style contradanzas) + 'Contradanzas Inglesas' section (~10 English-style contradanzas, each tagged with 'Ocho' couple-count) + closing 'Modo de executar los Pasos y Diferencias de las Contradanzas' glossary (clean OCR pp. 50-61 of the bound volume) defining the Spanish-school contradanza step/figure lexicon in 33 entries: 11 pasos (Valancé, Rigodón = Contratiempo + Assemblé, Gricé lado derecho/izquierdo, Zarcé, Zarcé Quadrado, Zarcé Retumbado, Zarcé Cruzado, Paso Buré, Cedazo, Estrellón, Caracú) and 22 figuras (Alas de Espaldas / de Cabecera / de Costado, Cruz de Espaldas, Enlacé, Medio Ocho, Ocho Entero, Medio Ocho por Fuera, Ocho Cerrado, Cadena de Siguidillas Entera, Cadena Inglesa, Rueda de Todos, Una Mano, Dos Manos, Alemanda, Paseo en Alemanda, Cruz de Quatro, Cruz Doble, Cruz de Malta, Puente, Rueda de Palmadas, Rueda de Corteza, Rueda de Espaldas, Dos Caras, Quatro Caras, Cambiar de Compañeras). Glossary details step-by-step foot-position mechanics (primera/segunda/tercera posicion, doblar, cargar cuerpo, levantar, saltar, asamblé, caer en puntas) for each paso, and formation-by-formation geometry for each figura. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the EARLIEST Spanish published codification of the contradanza figure-vocabulary currently in the LOD corpus — pre-dates Rivas 1768 (LOC-1768-RIVAS, Barcelona) by 17y, Monsort 1769 (LOC-1769-MONSORT, Valencia) by 18y, Marset 1774 (LOC-1774-MARSET, Madrid) by 23y, and Ibarra 1775 (LOC-1775-IBARRA, Madrid) by 24y. Establishes the mid-century Madrid dance-ballroom step-lexicon that underlies the 1760s-1770s Iberian contradanza explosion. Pan-European synchronism with Landrin 1760c (Paris) and Pantezze 1761 (Lisbon). Internal diglossia: 'Contradanzas Francesas' = Galician formation-set French school; 'Contradanzas Inglesas' = 8-couple English longways school. Title-plate dance list ~40 named dances; OCR of title-plate texts is severely corrupted by engraved-music plate-overlap and only ~6 titles are confidently legible in this pass; remaining ~34 deferred for future targeted-OCR run. Has_Step_Detail = Partial — closing Diferencias glossary provides full foot-position + body-mechanics narrative; title-plate dance-bodies provide formation-level Parte instructions only.Year: 1751Family: contradanzasCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anonymous Spanish-court-ballroom contradanza collection, Madrid c.1751 (undated title-page but internally dated by BNE cataloging to the early 1750s based on engraving style and paper watermark). Source: BNE (Biblioteca Nacional de España) scan. DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1751-Contradanzas_(BNE).txt (576 lines OCR; Spanish 18c print with heavy long-s, ligature, and engraved-music plate-overlap corruption on title plates; closing 'Diferencias' glossary pages clean OCR). STRUCTURE: title-plate + 'Contradanzas Francesas' section (~30 French-style contradanzas) + 'Contradanzas Inglesas' section (~10 English-style contradanzas, each tagged with 'Ocho' couple-count) + closing 'Modo de executar los Pasos y Diferencias de las Contradanzas' glossary (clean OCR pp. 50-61 of the bound volume) defining the Spanish-school contradanza step/figure lexicon in 33 entries: 11 pasos (Valancé, Rigodón = Contratiempo + Assemblé, Gricé lado derecho/izquierdo, Zarcé, Zarcé Quadrado, Zarcé Retumbado, Zarcé Cruzado, Paso Buré, Cedazo, Estrellón, Caracú) and 22 figuras (Alas de Espaldas / de Cabecera / de Costado, Cruz de Espaldas, Enlacé, Medio Ocho, Ocho Entero, Medio Ocho por Fuera, Ocho Cerrado, Cadena de Siguidillas Entera, Cadena Inglesa, Rueda de Todos, Una Mano, Dos Manos, Alemanda, Paseo en Alemanda, Cruz de Quatro, Cruz Doble, Cruz de Malta, Puente, Rueda de Palmadas, Rueda de Corteza, Rueda de Espaldas, Dos Caras, Quatro Caras, Cambiar de Compañeras). Glossary details step-by-step foot-position mechanics (primera/segunda/tercera posicion, doblar, cargar cuerpo, levantar, saltar, asamblé, caer en puntas) for each paso, and formation-by-formation geometry for each figura. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the EARLIEST Spanish published codification of the contradanza figure-vocabulary currently in the LOD corpus — pre-dates Rivas 1768 (LOC-1768-RIVAS, Barcelona) by 17y, Monsort 1769 (LOC-1769-MONSORT, Valencia) by 18y, Marset 1774 (LOC-1774-MARSET, Madrid) by 23y, and Ibarra 1775 (LOC-1775-IBARRA, Madrid) by 24y. Establishes the mid-century Madrid dance-ballroom step-lexicon that underlies the 1760s-1770s Iberian contradanza explosion. Pan-European synchronism with Landrin 1760c (Paris) and Pantezze 1761 (Lisbon). Internal diglossia: 'Contradanzas Francesas' = Galician formation-set French school; 'Contradanzas Inglesas' = 8-couple English longways school. Title-plate dance list ~40 named dances; OCR of title-plate texts is severely corrupted by engraved-music plate-overlap and only ~6 titles are confidently legible in this pass; remaining ~34 deferred for future targeted-OCR run. Has_Step_Detail = Partial — closing Diferencias glossary provides full foot-position + body-mechanics narrative; title-plate dance-bodies provide formation-level Parte instructions only. (1751). Imported from local collection.