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The British Library and the History of Dancing

2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01472526.2010.485913

1532-4257

Moira Goff,

Literature: history, themes, analysis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. For an account of Hester Booth's life and career see Moira Goff, The Incomparable Hester Santlow (Aldershot, Hants., England: Ashgate Publishing, 2007). 2. In 1733, Sloane had attended Hester Booth's husband, Barton Booth, in his last illness. See Benjamin Victor, Memoirs of the Life of Barton Booth, Esq. (London: John Watts, 1733), 19–25. 3. For accounts of Sloane, his collections, his will, and the foundation of the British Museum, see Sir Hans Sloane, ed. Arthur MacGregor (London: British Museum Press, 1994). The codicil is quoted on p. 47. 4. The second Duke of Montagu had theatrical connections, for he was closely associated with the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, built in 1720 (see William J. Burling and Robert D. Hume, “Theatrical Companies at the Little Haymarket, 1720–1737,” Essays in Theatre, vol. 4, no. 2 [May 1986]: 98–118). 5. For a richly detailed account of the development of the library, see P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753–1973 (London: British Library, 1998). The salaries allotted to the Museum's first staff are given on 4. 6. British Library, Additional MS 37836, ff. 5r, 7r. Denoyer had also been the dancing partner of Hester Booth. For details of his life and career, see Moira Goff, Denoyer, Charmer of the Georgian Age (forthcoming), p. 4. 7. A brief history of the British Library and its predecessors can be found on the library's website at www.bl.uk/aboutus. Another view of the early years of the library, and a snapshot of its structure in the late 1990s, is provided by Alan Day, Inside the British Library (London: Library Association, 1998). 8. R. A. Peddie, Subject Index of Books Published up to and Including 1880 (London: Grafton & Co., 1933). 9. Cyril W. Beaumont, A Bibliography of Dancing (London: Dancing Times, 1929). 10. Louis Fuzelier, Les Indes galantes (Paris: Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1736), 11736.h.10.(5). Beamont makes no reference to Rameau's score for the opera. The library later acquired two copies of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les Indes galantes. Ballet, reduit a quatre grands concerts (Paris: M. Boivin, [1740?]), Hirsch.II.777, R.M.10.a.11 (Royal Music Library). 11. Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin, Dancing by the Book (New York: privately printed, 2003). Mrs. Malkin's collection is now in the library of Pennsylvania State University. 12. Le manuscrit dit des Basses Danses de la Bibliothèque de Bourgogne ([Brussels]: Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 1912), K.5.a.18 (which reproduces only two of the pages as they appear in the manuscript). There is also a modern full facsimile: Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er. Manuscript. Ms 9085. Les Basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (Graz: Akademische Druk-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1988), G.1488/5. 13. Baltasar de Beaujoyeulx, Balet Comique de la Royne (Paris: Adrian le Roy, Robert Ballard, Mamert Patisson, 1582), C.33.l.3, Hirsch.III.629. Thoinot Arbeau, Orchesographie (Langres: Jehan des Preyz, [1588]), C.31.b.3, C.31.b.30 (lacking titlepage), Hirsch.I.569. 14. Fabritio Caroso, Il Ballarino (Venetia: F. Ziletti, 1581), 64.d.17 (King's Library), C.107.d.2, 558*.c.17, Hirsch.I.100. Cesare Negri, Nuove Inventioni di Balli (Milano: Girolamo Bordone, 1604), 785.m.8, 62.h.18 (King's Library), Hirsch.I.429. 15. Archange Tuccaro, Trois dialogues de l'exercise de sauter, et voltiger en l'air (Paris: Claude de Monstr'oeil, 1599), C.77.b.16 (Old Royal Library); this copy is missing the folding plate, G.2625 (Grenville Library). 16. Barthélemy de Montagut, Louange de la Danse, ed. B. Ravelhofer (Cambridge: Renaissance Texts from Manuscripts, 2000). The Library also has a copy of de Lauze's Apologie de la Danse, 557*.d.10. 17. Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens (London: N. Okes, R. Bonian, H. Wally, 1609), C.28.g.5. There is some doubt as to whether this copy did once belong to David Garrick. 18. Michel de Pure, Idée des Spectacles (Paris: Michel Brunet, [1668]), 840.a.6, 840.c.5. Claude François Ménéstrier, Des Ballets anciens et modernes (Paris: René Guignard, 1682), 840.c.7. 19. The English Dancing Master (London: Thomas Harper, John Playford, 1651), E.626.(7). This copy has been bound along its top edge, rather than according to its oblong format, presumably to fit it alongside the pamphlets in the same volume. 20. A full list appears in The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1651–ca.1728), ed. Jeremy Barlow (London: Faber Music, 1985), 13. 21. The various attempts to invent a workable system of dance notation are explained in Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol G. Marsh, Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 83–87. Raoul Auger Feuillet, Chorégraphie, Seconde édition, augmentée (Paris: l'auteur, Michel Brunet, 1701), 556.e.13.(1), Hirsch.I.171. Part of the bibliographic history of this work, which is almost always found bound with two collections of dances, by Feuillet and Guillaume-Louis Pécour respectively, is given in Malkin, Dancing by the Book, entry 35. 22. Pierre Rameau, Le Maître a danser (Paris: Jean Villette, 1725), 1042.l.21, Le Maître a danser (Paris: Jean Villette fils, 1734), Hirsch.I.483, Abbregé de la nouvelle methode (Paris: l'auteur, I. Villette, Jacque Josse, le Sr. Boivin, le Sr. des-Hayes, [1725]), C.31.g.7, Hirsch.I.482. 23. Pécour, Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet (Paris: le Sieur Feüillet, 1704), 7895.e.24, Nouveau recüeil de dance de bal et celle de ballet (Paris: le Sieur Gaudrau, Pierre Ribou, [1713?]), K.8.k.11. 24. Raoul Auger Feuillet [trans. John Weaver], Orchesography (London: H. Meere, P. Valliant, 1706), 558*.c.39. Weaver's translation is listed in the Library's 1787 catalogue. 25. Pierre Rameau [trans. John Essex], The Dancing-Master. Second edition. (London: [J. Essex], J. Brotherton, 1731), C.135.e.5. This translation has a complex bibliographical history, outlined in Malkin, Dancing by the Book, no. 106. 26. Kellom Tomlinson, The Art of Dancing (London: the author, 1735), K.8.k.7. 27. The dances by Mr. Isaac are bound together into a single volume at h.993. Edmund Pemberton, An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing (London: J. Walsh, J. Hare, the author's [i.e., Pemberton], 1711), 556.e.16. Anthony L'Abbé, A New Collection of Dances (London: Mr Barreau's, Mr. Roussau's, [1725?]), K.11.c.5. Full details of the library's holdings of French and English treatises and notated dances published between 1700 and 1750 can be found in Moira Goff, “‘The Art of Dancing, Demonstrated by Characters and Figures’: French and English Sources for Court and Theatre Dance, 1700–1750,” British Library Journal, 21:2 (Autumn 1995): 202–31. 28. John Essex, For the Further Improvement of Dancing (London: I. Walsh, I. Hare, the author, [1715?]), 60.h.28. At least part of Queen Caroline's library entered the King's Library. 29. John Weaver, A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing (London: H. Meere, Isaac Vaillant, 1706), 785.k.7.(1). The notated dances in this volume are individually catalogued and each has its own shelfmark, 785.k.7.(2) to 785.k.7.(11). 30. John Weaver, The Loves of Mars and Venus (London: W. Mears, J. Browne, 1717), C.121.c.19, The Fable of Orpheus and Eurydice (London: W. Mears, J. Browne, W. Chettwood, [1718]), 1343.d.44 (lacking all after p. 26), The Judgment of Paris (London: J. Tonson, 1733), C.193.a.182. 31. John Thurmond, Apollo and Daphne (London: A. Dodd, 1725), RB.23.a.5769 (Drury Lane version). Lewis Theobald, Vocal Parts of an Entertainment, Called Apollo and Daphne (London: T. Wood, [1726]), 11777.aa.6 (Lincoln's Inn Fields version). M. Roger and John Weaver, Perseus and Andromeda. With the Rape of Colombine: or, The Flying Lovers (London: W. Trott, 1728), RB.23.b.1770. 32. The Burney collection of newspapers has been digitized, with full text searching, and is accessible on subscription from Gale Cengage Learning as 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers. 33. Gregorio Lambranzi, Neue und curieuse theatralische Tantz-Schul (Nürnberg: Johan Iacob Wolrab, 1716), K.g.4 (part one only), K.8.g.5, K.8.g.19 (part one only), Hirsch.I.298. 34. Giovanni Battista Dufort, Trattato del ballo nobile (Napoli: Felice Mosca, 1728), 1041.c.9. 35. Bartholome Ferriol y Boxeraus, Reglas útiles para los aficionados a danzar (Capoa: Joseph Testore, 1745), 7918.a.56 [Malaga?, 1745?], Hirsch.I.170. The place of publication for the latter is derived from the dedication, to two consuls of the city, found in surviving copies. 36. Malkin, Dancing by the Book, entry no. 79. 37. Harris, History of the British Museum Library, 26–27. 38. See the British Library website, www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts.