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Maître de Danse — German Q&A Pedagogy for Beauchamp-Feuillet Character Notation (IHP, Copenhagen 1705)
Publisher: IHP (unidentified German dance master, initials only; author withheld full name per the Dedication preface — "I. H. P.") / printed by Johann Friderich Schmidhimmel, Königlicher Privilegierter Buchdrucker [Copenhagen], 1705 (MDCCV). Source: Det Kongelige Bibliotek København (DKB scan, 1705-IHP-Maitre_(DKB).txt, 352 lines; and sibling 1707 SUB Göttingen reprint). First-edition German-language Q&A pedagogical text teaching ladies and gentlemen ("eine jede Person, sie sei männliches oder weibliches Geschlechts") to read Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. Contents: Question-and-answer format on the presentation of the Dance-Floor on paper ("der Tanz-Platz"); characters and figures for Tours and body-orientation (◯ = face forward, 🟦 = face direction of stroke, + = facing side, × = facing backward, changers, turn-points); numbering conventions for left/right feet; Pas-beginning/continuation rules; Bar-length proportions; Menuet d'Anjou (one Takt per Mouvement); old and middle Passepied (two Takts per Mouvement); Bourée Mouvement (alternating both arms then one, "vier-fach Menuet-Mouvement wechselweis"); Courante Menuet-Mouvement with both arms; Sarabande opening Menuet-Mouvement rules; Balancen variations; Numbers 16-19 (four special Pas figures). Historical significance: one of the earliest German-language pedagogical companion texts to the Beauchamp-Feuillet Chorégraphie system, aimed at a Baltic / North German court audience (DKB copy from the Copenhagen Royal Library). Precedes and provides methodological cohort for Taubert 1706 (Kurtzer Entwurff) and Taubert 1717 (Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister). Step_Coverage=None; Q&A prose only, no step-table transcription.Year: 1705Family: ihp-dkbCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by IHP (unidentified German dance master, initials only; author withheld full name per the Dedication preface — "I. H. P.") / printed by Johann Friderich Schmidhimmel, Königlicher Privilegierter Buchdrucker [Copenhagen], 1705 (MDCCV). Source: Det Kongelige Bibliotek København (DKB scan, 1705-IHP-Maitre_(DKB).txt, 352 lines; and sibling 1707 SUB Göttingen reprint). First-edition German-language Q&A pedagogical text teaching ladies and gentlemen ("eine jede Person, sie sei männliches oder weibliches Geschlechts") to read Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation. Contents: Question-and-answer format on the presentation of the Dance-Floor on paper ("der Tanz-Platz"); characters and figures for Tours and body-orientation (◯ = face forward, 🟦 = face direction of stroke, + = facing side, × = facing backward, changers, turn-points); numbering conventions for left/right feet; Pas-beginning/continuation rules; Bar-length proportions; Menuet d'Anjou (one Takt per Mouvement); old and middle Passepied (two Takts per Mouvement); Bourée Mouvement (alternating both arms then one, "vier-fach Menuet-Mouvement wechselweis"); Courante Menuet-Mouvement with both arms; Sarabande opening Menuet-Mouvement rules; Balancen variations; Numbers 16-19 (four special Pas figures). Historical significance: one of the earliest German-language pedagogical companion texts to the Beauchamp-Feuillet Chorégraphie system, aimed at a Baltic / North German court audience (DKB copy from the Copenhagen Royal Library). Precedes and provides methodological cohort for Taubert 1706 (Kurtzer Entwurff) and Taubert 1717 (Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister). Step_Coverage=None; Q&A prose only, no step-table transcription. (1705). Imported from local collection.