Vorlesungen ueber die schoenen Kuenste, Kupferstecherkunst, Bildhauerkunst, Steinschneidekunst und Tanzkunst von Herrn Professor Schubart (Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart; herausgegeben von einem seiner ehemaligen Schueler, Augsburg, 1777)

Dance manual/reference by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791), Swabian-Wuerttemberg poet, musician, organist, journalist and aesthetic theorist / edited and published by 'einem seiner ehemaligen Schueler' (an anonymous former pupil), Augsburg 1777. This edition (Augsburg 1777) is a supplement to the previously-published 'Vorlesungen ueber die schoenwissen-schaftlichen' (Schubart's earlier Augsburg lectures on the verbal-arts); contains 5 lectures on the VISUAL ARTS + DANCE. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1777-Schubart-Vorlesungen_(Goog).txt (40.7KB OCR; Google-Bavarian-State-Library scan, German Fraktur with typical ligature OCR noise). STRUCTURE: Vorerinnerung des Herausgebers + 5 lectures: (I) Von der Mahlerey (Painting) — from the Egyptian/Etruscan/Greek origins through Apelles/Zeuxis/Parrhasius, the Italian Trecento revival (Cimabue), the Schulen (Florentine Michelangelo; Roman Raphael; Venetian Giorgione/Titian/Tintoretto/Paolo Veronese; Lombard Correggio; German Duerer/Cranach/Holbein; Netherlandish van Eyck/Rubens/Van Dyck; Dutch Lucas van Leyden/Rembrandt/Ruisdael; French Poussin/Le Brun/Watteau); glossary of mahlerische Kunstwoerter; (II) Von der Kupferstecherkunst (engraving) — Duerer, Lucas Cranach, Holz, Behaim, Lucas van Leyden, Lukas Kilian, Sandrart, Preissler, and the 1770s German/French/Italian/English engravers (Schmitt, Bodmer, Wille, Strange, Hogarth); (III) Von der Bildhauerkunst (sculpture) — from Egyptian/Etruscan origins through Greek (Phidias, Polyclitus, Myron, Scopas, Lysippus; Laocoon; Niobe; Borghese Gladiator; Medicean Venus; Apollo Belvedere) to Italian (Michelangelo, Sansovino, Bernini) and the 1770s (Pigalle, Duerer, Kern); (IV) Von der Steinschneidekunst (gem-carving / glyptics) — Dioscorides, Scopas, the Roman Augustan gem-cutters, the Medici-era Italian revival, the 1770s Dresden school (Stiler); (V) Von der Tanzkunst oder Pantomime (pp. 37-43) — the DANCE LECTURE proper: origins (heilig/profan distinction; David's dance around the ark; Persian Sun-Dance; Chaldaean/Persian/Arabian temple-dance; Christian Fackeltanz / Johannistanz still surviving into the 18c); Greek regulated dance — Hymensdaze (pair-alternating 'bachelor-matchmaking' social dance); Greek licentious private dance (Socratic Alcibiades etc); Roman pantomime — Pylades & Bathillus as the Augustan canonical (see existing H-REN-BRA-F0224 canonical); modern French-choreographic revival — NOVERRE ('dieser grosse Tanz macht in der Tanzkunst Epoche'), his Orpheus, Aurora, Agamemnon, Ballet of the Graces, Alexander's Sieg ballets; four criteria of a good dancer (wohlgebaut / Character-feeling / simplest natural outline / great precision in feet and arms); ballet roles (tragische/komische/Solotaenzer/Figuranten); a Pas de Deux defined as 'ein Tanz zwischen zwey Solotaenzern'; Entrechat defined as 'ein mit einem Triller begleiteter Aufsprung'; four European national dances (Englische, Franzoesische, Polnische, Russische — the first published German-language quad-national dance-classification); and the landmark concluding sentence that identifies the Walzer and the Schleifer as the distinctively-German national social-dances — 'Wunderbar ist's, dass eine so ernsthafte Nation, wie die deutsche, gerade den allerlaermendsten und ermuedendsten Tanz, den Schleifer und Walzer, erfinden musste.' HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: the EARLIEST DATABLE GERMAN-LANGUAGE PUBLISHED ATTESTATION of the Walzer and Schleifer together as the characterizing German national social-dances — predates the Clarchies 1795 Paris 'Waltzer' section (LOC-1795-CLARCHIES, H-GAB-VW-F0260) by 18 years and the Cellarius 1847 first-monograph codification (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS) by 70 years, and is a key corroborating source for the Swabian-Wuerttemberg origin-theory of the Walzer. Also the first critical German reception of Noverre's reform — Schubart's ebuellient endorsement ('uebertreffen alles, was jemals ueber diese Kunst geschrieben worden') is 17 years after Noverre's Lyon 1760 Lettres (LOC-1760-NOVERRE) and cements Noverre's status as the central choreographer of the late-18c German-speaking lands (which hosted Noverre as Wuerttemberg-court ballet-master from 1760-1767). ROSETTA STONE LINKS: matches H-BAR-VAR-F0188 Ballet d'action (Noverre 1760), H-REN-BRA-F0224 Pantomime of Pilades & Bathillus (Gallini 1762), H-GAB-VW-F0260 Waltzer/Walzer (Clarchies c.1795), H-GAB-WAL-F0050 Walzer/Valse umbrella, H-BAR-CD-F0046 Lorin Instruction generale (pedagogy framework); re-attests 6 canonicals. Has_Step_Detail = No — pure aesthetic prose, no step or figure notation. (1777). Imported from local collection.