Francine Lancelot

L A   B E L L E   D A N S E

S U M M A R Y

we shall soon propose links to a few selected pages

I  •  T H E     C O R P U S

• The sources
• Main and secondary sources
• Printed and manuscript sources
• The Repertoires
• The ballroom dance repertoire
• The ballet entrées repertoire
• Chronology and the problems of dating for the manuscript collections
• Principles of dating
• Chronological analysis of the main and secondary sources

II  • T H E   C H O R E O G R A P H E R S

• The Sources
• The Repertoires
• Chronology

III • F I E L D S   O F   E X P L O R A T I O N

The Music
• Identification of the choreographed tunes
• First sampling from cross-checking of incipit
• Investigations carried-out in the musical work
• The Dance Types
• Distribution by repertoire Methods
• Choreographic analysis
• Musical analysis
• The results (of Dance Types study)
 • bourrées
 • rigaudons
 • gavottes
 • gaillardes
 • menuets
 • passepieds
 • courantes
 • sarabandes
 • folies d¹Espagne
 • loures
 • forlanes
 • gigues and canaries
 • chaconnes and passacailles

A N N E X E S

• Chrono. classif. dances x dance type
• Chrono. classif. of multipartite forms by repertoire
• Table of the dances by choreographer
• Alpha. classif. of composersŠ
• Alpha. classif. of musical works
• Table of dances by interpreter
• Chrono. of collections and treatises
• Musical concordance between the dances and three musical collections
• Concordance between the Little/Marsh and Lancelot codes

I N D E X

• Index by musical incipit
• Index of dances / number of performers
• Alphabetical Index of titles
• Alphabetical Index of quoted names

D E S C R I P T I V E   E N T R I E S
O F   T H E   S O U R C E S
A reader's Guide to those entries

PRINTED SOURCES p. 3
Aimable Vainqueur, a example of our catalogue system

MANUSCRIPT SOURCES p. 277

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