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Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music: Twelve Transcribed Italian Treatises and Collections in the Tradition of Domenico da Piacenza, translated and annotated by A. William Smith. Dance and Music Series, No. 4. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1995. Volume I: Treatises And Music, xxii + 308 pp., introduction, color and b & w photographs, music notations, indexes, bibliography. $64.00 clothbound. Volume II: Choreographic Descriptions with Concordances of Variants, viii + 333 pp., charts, appendices. $64.00 clothbound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Barbara Sparti
Barbara Sparti
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Rome, Italy
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Fall 1997 , pp. 101 - 105
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1997

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NOTES

1. Pontremoli, A. and La Rocca, P., La danza a Venezia nel Rinascimento (Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 1993), 103–108 and figs. 14 and 15.Google Scholar The source in question is a two-page description of dances now in the Marciana Library in Venice, first unearthed and reported on by Smith in 1987.

2. Kinkeldey, O., “Dance Tunes of the Fifteenth Century,” in Instrumental Music: A Conference at Isham Memorial Library, ed. Hughes, D. G. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 3–30 and 89–152.Google Scholar

3. As with the three musical versions of Gelosia, no translation has been made of the choreographic differences and of when certain actions take place, nor are these variants translated or pointed out in footnotes.