 The steps used in court dancing in fifteenth-century Italy.
Author: Wilson, D R Published: 2003 Fifteenth-century Italian dance treatises were more concerned with the quality of movement in dancing and with the skills of the dancer than they were with details of the actual steps, and for the most part modern scholarship has followed the same course. The present study goes back to basics by reviewing the evidence for the form and content of twenty-one main steps or recognised step sequences, plus many variations, principally through analysis of actual dance descriptions appended to surviving copies of the treatises. (This is the third, revised and enlarged edition.) |
