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Almanach dansant, ou positions et attitudes de l'allemande, avec un discours preliminaire sur l'origine et l'utilite de la danse... par Guillaume, pour l'annee 1769. Recueil de contredanses... et menuets par M. La Hante et M. Landrin (Guillaume / M. Simon / La Hante / Landrin, Paris 1769)
Publisher: Guillaume / M. Simon / La Hante / Landrin, Paris 1769. BNF Gallica scan. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1769-Guillaume-Almanach_(BNF).txt (485 lines OCR; mostly-clean French 18c print with some calendrical-table OCR artefacts). Approbation 14 October 1768, Cancellor's privilege du Roi. STRUCTURE: a hybrid book — (a) a calendrical almanach (January-December 1769 with sun/moon tables, saints, feast days); (b) a Discours preliminaire on the origin and advantages of dance extracted in part from Cahusac 1754 (LOC-1754-CAHUSAC) and from l'Histoire de la Danse; (c) an 'Avertissement pour l'Allemande' followed by an 'Explication des pas de l'Allemande' — pas-level descriptions of the 2/4 'bourree-jetee' pas and the 3/8 'sauter' pas; (d) 12 numbered tableaux for the Allemande-a-deux with passes-under-arm, crossed-arms-behind-back, rosette-formation, back-to-back, shoulder-reversal — the precursor to the Brives 1779 Allemande-a-deux tableau set (LOC-1779-BRIVES); (e) 6 numbered contredanses by M. Landrin and M. La Hante: N°1 La Petite Parisienne (contredanse Francoise), N°2 La Mignonnette (contredanse Francoise sur deux lignes), N°3 Les Fetes Royales (contredanse Allemande), N°4 La Plaisante (contredanse Allemande sur deux lignes), N°5 Les Plaisirs de Londres (contredanse Angloise), N°6 La Saint-James (contredanse Angloise); (f) an 'Explication des figures pour les contredanses Angloises' placed between the Allemande contredanses and the Angloise contredanses, with explicit longways-set pedagogy. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Guillaume 1769 is the direct pas-level and tableau-level Paris-salon antecedent to Brives 1779's Allemande-a-deux pedagogy (H-REN-ALL-F0014). It documents the 1769 distinction between 'contredanse Francoise' (round-formation) and 'contredanse Angloise' (longways-formation, with the 'chaine Angloise' figure) at the moment just before Landrin's more elaborate 1770-1778 contredanse collections, and gives the late-1760s canonical pas-level description of the French-salon Allemande. The Landrin / La Hante collaboration attested here is the key source-link for the Parisian Landrin-family attribution of the 12 tableaux. ROSETTA STONE LINKS: dictionary-level matches to H-REN-ALL-F0001 L'Allemande (the parent-figure for the 12 tableaux) and H-REN-ALL-F0014 Allemande a Deux (Brives 1779) as a cross-syllabus precursor. Six new H-BAR-CD canonicals for the named Francoise/Allemande/Angloise contredanses; 12 new H-REN-ALL canonicals for the numbered Allemande tableaux. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (the 2/4 bourree-jetee and 3/8 sauter pas are step-level; the 12 tableaux and 6 contredanses are formation-narrative).Year: 1769Family: guillaumeCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Guillaume / M. Simon / La Hante / Landrin, Paris 1769. BNF Gallica scan. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1769-Guillaume-Almanach_(BNF).txt (485 lines OCR; mostly-clean French 18c print with some calendrical-table OCR artefacts). Approbation 14 October 1768, Cancellor's privilege du Roi. STRUCTURE: a hybrid book — (a) a calendrical almanach (January-December 1769 with sun/moon tables, saints, feast days); (b) a Discours preliminaire on the origin and advantages of dance extracted in part from Cahusac 1754 (LOC-1754-CAHUSAC) and from l'Histoire de la Danse; (c) an 'Avertissement pour l'Allemande' followed by an 'Explication des pas de l'Allemande' — pas-level descriptions of the 2/4 'bourree-jetee' pas and the 3/8 'sauter' pas; (d) 12 numbered tableaux for the Allemande-a-deux with passes-under-arm, crossed-arms-behind-back, rosette-formation, back-to-back, shoulder-reversal — the precursor to the Brives 1779 Allemande-a-deux tableau set (LOC-1779-BRIVES); (e) 6 numbered contredanses by M. Landrin and M. La Hante: N°1 La Petite Parisienne (contredanse Francoise), N°2 La Mignonnette (contredanse Francoise sur deux lignes), N°3 Les Fetes Royales (contredanse Allemande), N°4 La Plaisante (contredanse Allemande sur deux lignes), N°5 Les Plaisirs de Londres (contredanse Angloise), N°6 La Saint-James (contredanse Angloise); (f) an 'Explication des figures pour les contredanses Angloises' placed between the Allemande contredanses and the Angloise contredanses, with explicit longways-set pedagogy. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Guillaume 1769 is the direct pas-level and tableau-level Paris-salon antecedent to Brives 1779's Allemande-a-deux pedagogy (H-REN-ALL-F0014). It documents the 1769 distinction between 'contredanse Francoise' (round-formation) and 'contredanse Angloise' (longways-formation, with the 'chaine Angloise' figure) at the moment just before Landrin's more elaborate 1770-1778 contredanse collections, and gives the late-1760s canonical pas-level description of the French-salon Allemande. The Landrin / La Hante collaboration attested here is the key source-link for the Parisian Landrin-family attribution of the 12 tableaux. ROSETTA STONE LINKS: dictionary-level matches to H-REN-ALL-F0001 L'Allemande (the parent-figure for the 12 tableaux) and H-REN-ALL-F0014 Allemande a Deux (Brives 1779) as a cross-syllabus precursor. Six new H-BAR-CD canonicals for the named Francoise/Allemande/Angloise contredanses; 12 new H-REN-ALL canonicals for the numbered Allemande tableaux. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (the 2/4 bourree-jetee and 3/8 sauter pas are step-level; the 12 tableaux and 6 contredanses are formation-narrative). (1769). Imported from local collection.