Dictionnaire de Musique (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paris 1768)

Dance manual/reference by Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, au Temple du Gout, Paris 1768. Approbation Clairaut 14 April 1765, Privilege du Roi 17 July 1765 (Compiegne), 10-year privilege. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1768-Rousseau-Dictionnaire_(Goog).txt (5,129 lines OCR; mostly-clean French 18c print with ligature artefacts). STRUCTURE: alphabetical musical dictionary (A-Z headwords) expanding Rousseau's earlier Encyclopedie articles (1751-65) into a standalone work. Dance-form headword entries include: ALLEMANDE (air 4/4 + dance 2/4 'fort commune en Suisse & en Allemagne'), BALLET (theatrical action danced to music), BOURREE ('Auvergne... deux Tems gais'), BRANLE ('Danfe fort gaie qui fe danfe en rond fur un Air court & en Rondeau'), CHACONNE ('née en Italie... plus que France dans nos Opera'), CONTRE-DANSE ('a quatre, a fix & a huit perfonnes... dans les Bals apres les Menuets'), COURANTE (3/2 graves, obsolete), ENTREE (symphony air opening a ballet), FORLANE (6/8 Venetian-Gondolier, from Frioul), GAILLARDE (3-time, ex-Romanesque, from Rome/Italy), GAVOTTE (2/2 with gracieux/gai/tendre movement), GIGUE (6/8 gai, Corellian, now obsolete in Italy/France), LOURE (6/4 slow, Baroque instrument-named), MENUET (3-time, Poitou-origin, 'elegante & noble simplicite'), MUSETTE (2/3 time, naif/doux, drone-bass), PANTOMIME (narrative-air with recurring couplet), PASSACAILLE (slower tender Chaconne variant, Armide and Uxe famous), PASSE-PIED (3/8 triple, faster than Menuet, syncope-admitting), PASTORALE (shepherd-theme opera or dance-air), PAVANE (obsolete ancient wheel-formation dance), RIGAUDON (2-time gai, 4+4 phrases), SARABANDE (3-time lent, Spanish-origin, Castagnettes), VOLTE ('efpece de Gaillarde... plus en ufage depuis longtems'). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Rousseau codifies the late-18c French-Enlightenment musical-dance lexicon at the moment when the Baroque suite-dance tradition (Courante, Gigue, Passacaille, Sarabande, Pavane, Volte) is explicitly characterized as 'plus en usage' / 'passe de Mode', while the newer salon-ballroom (Contredanse, Menuet, Passe-pied, Allemande, Gavotte) and regional-folk (Bourree, Forlane, Musette, Tambourin) forms are characterized as current. The Pastorale/Musette character-descriptions would directly inform the late-18c French opera-ballet character-dance revival (Noverre, Gardel). Rousseau's methodological remark ('qu'on n'auroit pas encore l'art d'ecrire... ces Airs font entierement paffes de Mode') is a primary-source time-stamp for the Baroque-suite's obsolescence in 1768 French musical practice. ROSETTA STONE LINKS: 23 cross-syllabus matches to existing canonicals spanning H-REN- (Pavane, Gaillarde, Branle, Volte), H-BAR- (Bourree, Chaconne, Contredanse, Courante, Entree, Forlane, Gavotte, Gigue, Loure, Menuet, Musette, Passacaille, Passepied, Pastorale, Rigaudon, Sarabande, Ballet, Allemande, Pantomime). Has_Step_Detail = None (dictionary-form definitions with music-theoretical characterization; no Foot-Position / Rise-and-Fall / CBM columns extractable). (1768). Imported from local collection.