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| Italian Dance Manuals: Il Ballarino by Margaret Roe. |
| Fabritio Caroso published Il Ballarino in 1581 as a manual for Italian dancing. Italian Dance Manuals: Il Ballarino brings these dances into a simplified format for modern recreations. In this book, the choreographies have been translated into modern English and into notation format for easy discernability. The music has been translated from lute tablature into modern sheet music. Additionally, this book has charted the characteristics of these dances, allowing any dancer or teacher to choose new dances based on the steps required, choreographic formations, number of dancers required, number of musical repeats, etc. With Italian Dance Manuals: Il Ballarino, Italian Renaissance dance becomes more available and enjoyable for today's participants. |
| Coming late 2008 |
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| Italian Dance Manuals: Steps by Margaret Roe. |
| Italian Dance Manuals: Steps is a detailed exploration of the steps required to perform the Italian dance choreographies published in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This book includes a new translation of the steps described in Il Ballarino, Nobilta di Dame, and Le Gratie d'Amore, comparing the explanations side by side, and redefining the steps in modern terms. |
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| Italian Dance Manuals: Nobilta di Dame by Margaret Roe. |
| Caroso wrote a sequel to Il Ballarino entitled Nobilta di Dame, which was originally published in 1600. Italian Dance Manuals: Nobilta di Dame includes translations of the dances and music from Nobilta di Dame and a series of charts detailing the dances, continuing this series of dance manuals from the late Italian Renaissance. |
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| Italian Dance Manuals: Le Gratie d'Amore by Margaret Roe. |
| Cesare Negri, a contemporary of Caroso, published his own manual for Italian dancing, Le Gratie d'Amore, in 1602. Italian Dance Manuals: Le Gratie d'Amore includes translations of the dances and music from Le Gratie d'Amore and a series of charts detailing the dances, continuing this series of dance manuals from the late Italian Renaissance. |
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