Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing / The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

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ORCHESOGRAPHY.

By JOHN WEAVER, Dancing-Master .

To Mr. Isaac. SIR,

PREFACE.

A List of the Dancing-Masters , Subscribers to this Undertaking. A Monsieur L'AbbE.-

Orchesography. (2)

Of the Stage, Room, or School.

The Presence of the Body.

Of the Tract.

Of the Positions.

Of true Positions.

Of false Positions.

Of Steps.

A Demonstration of all the Steps which have been before explain'd.

Steps may have Several Marks.

How to place the Marks in their proper Order.

Observations upon Springings.

Of Springing Steps.

Of marking the Positions.

Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.

Of waving Positions, and half Positions.

Of Positions and half Positions, which are wav'd and unwav'd.

Of the Change of Positions.

a TABLE of the shifting of the True Positions

a TABLE of the shifting of the False Positions

a TABLE of the Changing true positions into false positions

a TABLE of Shifting from false positions to true positions

Of Positions that shift or change from one place to another.

Of the Changing of waving Positions.

How to hold the Book or Paper, to decipher written Dances

Rules to be observ'd in Dancing by written Characters.

How to know what Steps and half Positions are with the right Foot, and what with the left.

The manner of Steps crossing one another .

To return upon a Tract you have just before mov'd on.

To know to and from what Positions, Steps move .

How Steps terminate in Positions .

Of simple and compound Steps.

The Tables.

TABLES Conteyning most of the steps us'd in

Dancing Courant Movements And Galliard step. Forwards.

a TABLE of half Coupees

TABLE of half Coupees

TABLE of half Coupees (2)

TABLE of half Coupees (3)

TABLE of half Coupees .

TABLE of CoupeEs .

TABLE of Coupees

TABLE of Coupees (2)

TABLE of Coupees (3)

TABLE of Coupees (4)

TABLE of Coupees . (2)

TABLE of Coupees (5)

TABLE of Coupees . (3)

TABLE of Coupees . (4)

TABLE of

Bouree steps or Fleurets

TABLE of Bouree's.

TABLE of Bouree's. (2)

TABLE of Bouree's. (3)

TABLE of Bouree's (4)

TABLE of Bouree's (5)

TABLE of Bouree's (6)

TABLE of Bouree's (7)

TABLE

of

Bounds and Tac's

TABLE of Bounds

TABLE of Bounds (2)

A TABLE of Compos'd Hops or Contretemps.

TABLE of Contretemps

TABLE of Contretemps (2)

TABLE of Contretemps (3)

TABLE of Contretemps (4)

TABLE of Contretemps. (5)

TABLE (2)

of (2)

ChassEs or Drises.

TABLE (3)

of (3)

Chassees and Falling steps.

a TABLE

of (4)

Sissonnes or Cross leaps

TABLE (4)

of (5)

Pirouettes.

TABLE of Pirouettes.

a TABLE (2)

of (6)

Capers and half Capers.

TABLE of Capers.

a TABLE (3)

of (7)

Entrechats or Cross Capers

TABLE of Waving Steps

Finis.

a

Suplement of Steps.

Of Time, Measure, or Cadence.

Of the Figure.

Some Rules to be observed in the Figures of Dances.

For giving the Hands in Dancing .

Of the Movement of the Arms.

Where to place the Motion of the Arms on the Tract.

Examples of the Movements of the Arms.

Some Rules to be observed in writing of Dances.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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