Publications

Lutio Compasso
Ballo della Gagliarda

Facsimile of the Italian original with an introduction (in English) by

Barbara Sparti.

60 pp., ISBN 3 931344 00 2;  Price € 19,00

The first printed source (Florence 1560) for the gagliarda contains 166 step combinations.

Review in: Dance Chronicle 22 (2/1997), pp.209–212; Dance Research XIV, 1/1996, pp.89-91.

Markus Lehner
A Manual of Sixteenth-Century Italian Dance Steps

233 pp., ISBN 3 931344 01 0; currently out of print/new edition in preparation.

A clearly arranged compilation of the steps of all Italian sources (Compasso, Foligno MS, Lupi, Lutij, Caroso, Negri). Synoptic presentation of Caroso's and Negri's descriptions.

Review in: Dance Chronicle 22 (3/1999), pp. 419-428; Concerto 140 (1999), p.18.

Instruction pour dancer; An anonymous manuscript

Edited and introduced by Angene Feves, Ann Lizbeth Langston, Uwe Schlottermüller, and Eugenia Roucher (all articles in English)

146 pp., ISBN 3 931344 02 9; Price € 33,00

The Instruction was probably written around 1610. In addition to branles, to be found in it are pavaniglia variations and numerous dances for which Praetorius provided the music in his dance collection Terpsichore. The new edition contains the complete French facsimile with transcription, an overview of all the steps, comparisons with other sources, and a survey of German history around 1600.

Review by Regine Astier in: Dance Chronicle 24 (2/2001), pp.223 – 226; Concerto 168 (2001), p.16.

Johann Georg Pasch

Anleitung sich bei grossen HERRN Höfen und andern beliebt zu machen
[How to Win Favour with the High and Mighty]

Newly edited and introduced by Uwe Schlottermüller. Abstracts in English and French. Steps translated by Barbara Ravelhofer and Véronique Daniels.

114 pp., ISBN 3 931344 03 7; Price € 26,00

The appendix to Pasch's conduct book from 1659, which is interesting from the point of view of cultural history as well as enjoyable to read, contains six dances with music and step combinations. This (until now) unknown source from the mid-seventeenth century is probably valid not only for the dance culture in Germany, but likewise for Ballet de cours and early French opera.

Review in: Concerto 168 (2001), p.16.

Morgenröte des Barock. Tanz im 17. Jahrhundert
[Dawn of the Baroque: Dance in the Seventeenth Century].
1. Rothenfelser Tanzsymposion vom 9.-13. Juni 2004. Tagungsband
Edited by Uwe Schlottermüller and Maria Richter.

284 pp., ISBN 3 931344 04 5; Price € 15,00

The volume contains all fourteen lectures as well as an article on the gavotte of the Instruction pour dancer with a possible reconstruction.