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Les Plaisirs du Bal de Mannheim (anonymous, c.1777)
Publisher: Anonymous Palatinate-court publication / Mannheim c.1777 (undated; BNF Gallica catalog entry assigns c.1777 by orthographic and engraving-style comparison to other Mannheim-court contredanse booklets of the Elector Karl Theodor period, reign 1742-1799). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1777-Mannheim_(BNF).txt (6KB OCR; French text with severe OCR degradation from the small-format late-18c German-court engraved plates). STRUCTURE: small-format Palatinate-court contredanse collection in the standard mid-18c French 'Plan des Figures + Description des Figures' sheet-form. The Mannheim court under Elector Karl Theodor was one of the principal musical centers of the late-18c Holy Roman Empire — the Mannheim Schule (Stamitz, Cannabich, the young Mozart during his 1777-1778 Mannheim residency) defined late-Galant orchestral practice — and the court-ball culture attested by this booklet participates in the same cosmopolitan Franco-German salon idiom. OCR-extractable content: (1) title 'Les Plaisirs du Bal de Mannheim'; (2) one named contredanse — 'La Hanovrienne Francoise' — attesting the House of Hanover connection to the Palatinate court (consistent with the 1763 Treaty of Paris restoration of Hanoverian territories and the dynastic Anglo-German-Palatinate alliances of the 1770s); (3) the principal-figure vocabulary — Moulinet, Rond, Croix, Chasse, Chaine Angloise, Chaine Francoise, Petit tour, Grand tour, Quarre entier, Demi-Quarre, Changement de Colonne, Allemande a droite / a gauche — a standard late-18c French-contredanse lexicon mirroring LOC-1769-GUILLAUME (Paris 1769) and LOC-1777-ANGLOISES (Vienne 1777). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The earliest Mannheim-court attestation of French Contredanse-Francaise / Contredanse-Angloise practice in the BNF-cataloged Franco-German salon corpus. Establishes that by the late-1770s the Palatinate-court Mannheim Schule accommodated both French-style and Angloise-style contredanses using a common figure vocabulary with the Parisian Guillaume-Landrin repertoire. The 'La Hanovrienne Francoise' is a FRENCH-STYLE contredanse commemorating the House of Hanover — a cultural-political companion to Guillaume 1769 N°5 Les Plaisirs de Londres (H-BAR-CD-F0142) and N°6 La Saint-James (H-BAR-CD-F0143). Has_Step_Detail = No — formation-narrative at best; the primary engraving is plate-only.Year: 1777Family: mannheimCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anonymous Palatinate-court publication / Mannheim c.1777 (undated; BNF Gallica catalog entry assigns c.1777 by orthographic and engraving-style comparison to other Mannheim-court contredanse booklets of the Elector Karl Theodor period, reign 1742-1799). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1777-Mannheim_(BNF).txt (6KB OCR; French text with severe OCR degradation from the small-format late-18c German-court engraved plates). STRUCTURE: small-format Palatinate-court contredanse collection in the standard mid-18c French 'Plan des Figures + Description des Figures' sheet-form. The Mannheim court under Elector Karl Theodor was one of the principal musical centers of the late-18c Holy Roman Empire — the Mannheim Schule (Stamitz, Cannabich, the young Mozart during his 1777-1778 Mannheim residency) defined late-Galant orchestral practice — and the court-ball culture attested by this booklet participates in the same cosmopolitan Franco-German salon idiom. OCR-extractable content: (1) title 'Les Plaisirs du Bal de Mannheim'; (2) one named contredanse — 'La Hanovrienne Francoise' — attesting the House of Hanover connection to the Palatinate court (consistent with the 1763 Treaty of Paris restoration of Hanoverian territories and the dynastic Anglo-German-Palatinate alliances of the 1770s); (3) the principal-figure vocabulary — Moulinet, Rond, Croix, Chasse, Chaine Angloise, Chaine Francoise, Petit tour, Grand tour, Quarre entier, Demi-Quarre, Changement de Colonne, Allemande a droite / a gauche — a standard late-18c French-contredanse lexicon mirroring LOC-1769-GUILLAUME (Paris 1769) and LOC-1777-ANGLOISES (Vienne 1777). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The earliest Mannheim-court attestation of French Contredanse-Francaise / Contredanse-Angloise practice in the BNF-cataloged Franco-German salon corpus. Establishes that by the late-1770s the Palatinate-court Mannheim Schule accommodated both French-style and Angloise-style contredanses using a common figure vocabulary with the Parisian Guillaume-Landrin repertoire. The 'La Hanovrienne Francoise' is a FRENCH-STYLE contredanse commemorating the House of Hanover — a cultural-political companion to Guillaume 1769 N°5 Les Plaisirs de Londres (H-BAR-CD-F0142) and N°6 La Saint-James (H-BAR-CD-F0143). Has_Step_Detail = No — formation-narrative at best; the primary engraving is plate-only. (1777). Imported from local collection.