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Conduite zu einer galanten und wohlanständigen Aufführung eines jungen Mannß und Frauenzimmers (MELETAON, Wolfenbüttel April 1713)
Publisher: MELETAON (pseudonym; "April 1713" subscription, identified as a Wolfenbüttel author by the dedication's reference to local Tanz-Meister Monsieur Meefe; possibly Johann Leonhard Rost a.k.a. "Meletaon", the Nuremberg novelist and astronomer, 1688-1727, who used the Meletaon pseudonym for popular conduct-and-fiction publications). Source: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB Drucke shelfmark hn-220, 1713-Rost-Von_(WDB).txt, 2825 lines). Dedicated to His Highness Count Ludwig BONIN — the famous Saxon Tanz-Meister and author of the 1712 Bonin treatise 'Die Neueste Art zur Galanten und Theatralischen Tantz-Kunst.' Galant conduct manual organized around the dance-as-civility argument: chapters cover (I) was unter der Galanterie zu verstehen ist (the definition of Galanterie), with explicit citations to John Locke 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' (London 1693, German translation circulating Saxony 1708-1715) §67, §196, §198 — the famous Locke argument that 'dancing is a gentle yet manly exercise that gives children frey-müthig [free-spirited] und gerechtlich [upright] und zur Conversation mit den älteren anregend' bearings; and to Hofrath Lemmerich's 'Academie der Wissenschafften' (Leipzig: Thomas Fritsche 1711) §19v ('Tantzen ist heutigen Tages fast eine nothwendige Qualitât einer Stands-Person, ohne welche man weder bey Hofe noch in andern vornehmen Gesellschafften vor ein galant homme passiren kan'); references Pasch and Pfeumer of Leipzig as the model Tanz-Meister; references Bonin Cap. XIII (Bonin 1712) on the utility of dance; (II) the difference between Salons-Tantz (Menuet, Compliment, Reverence) and Theatralisches Tantzen (Sarabande, Chaconne, theatrical Ballet). Compliments-and-Reverence pedagogy receives extensive treatment; how to make a Reverence to a Stands-Person; how to enter and exit a room with proper deportment; how a young Frauenzimmer should hold her arms and head when entering an Assembly. The text self-positions as a complement to Bonin 1712 — Bonin teaching the step-mechanics, MELETAON teaching the social-context Conduite that Bonin's mechanics presuppose. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: documents the Saxon-Wolfenbüttel reception of Locke's English educational philos-ophy as filtered through the German Pietist-conduct genre, with dance as the bridging-Exercitium between the moralistic Erziehungs-genre and the technical Tantz-Kunst pedagogy. Predates the Lambranzi 1716 (LOC-1716-LAMBRANZI) Italian-German theatrical-dance plates by three years and complements the Behr 1709 (LOC-1709-BEHR) German-Feuillet treatise as its conduct-side companion. Step_Coverage=None; conduct-and-civility prose, no step-table content.Year: 1713Family: meletaonCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by MELETAON (pseudonym; "April 1713" subscription, identified as a Wolfenbüttel author by the dedication's reference to local Tanz-Meister Monsieur Meefe; possibly Johann Leonhard Rost a.k.a. "Meletaon", the Nuremberg novelist and astronomer, 1688-1727, who used the Meletaon pseudonym for popular conduct-and-fiction publications). Source: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB Drucke shelfmark hn-220, 1713-Rost-Von_(WDB).txt, 2825 lines). Dedicated to His Highness Count Ludwig BONIN — the famous Saxon Tanz-Meister and author of the 1712 Bonin treatise 'Die Neueste Art zur Galanten und Theatralischen Tantz-Kunst.' Galant conduct manual organized around the dance-as-civility argument: chapters cover (I) was unter der Galanterie zu verstehen ist (the definition of Galanterie), with explicit citations to John Locke 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' (London 1693, German translation circulating Saxony 1708-1715) §67, §196, §198 — the famous Locke argument that 'dancing is a gentle yet manly exercise that gives children frey-müthig [free-spirited] und gerechtlich [upright] und zur Conversation mit den älteren anregend' bearings; and to Hofrath Lemmerich's 'Academie der Wissenschafften' (Leipzig: Thomas Fritsche 1711) §19v ('Tantzen ist heutigen Tages fast eine nothwendige Qualitât einer Stands-Person, ohne welche man weder bey Hofe noch in andern vornehmen Gesellschafften vor ein galant homme passiren kan'); references Pasch and Pfeumer of Leipzig as the model Tanz-Meister; references Bonin Cap. XIII (Bonin 1712) on the utility of dance; (II) the difference between Salons-Tantz (Menuet, Compliment, Reverence) and Theatralisches Tantzen (Sarabande, Chaconne, theatrical Ballet). Compliments-and-Reverence pedagogy receives extensive treatment; how to make a Reverence to a Stands-Person; how to enter and exit a room with proper deportment; how a young Frauenzimmer should hold her arms and head when entering an Assembly. The text self-positions as a complement to Bonin 1712 — Bonin teaching the step-mechanics, MELETAON teaching the social-context Conduite that Bonin's mechanics presuppose. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: documents the Saxon-Wolfenbüttel reception of Locke's English educational philos-ophy as filtered through the German Pietist-conduct genre, with dance as the bridging-Exercitium between the moralistic Erziehungs-genre and the technical Tantz-Kunst pedagogy. Predates the Lambranzi 1716 (LOC-1716-LAMBRANZI) Italian-German theatrical-dance plates by three years and complements the Behr 1709 (LOC-1709-BEHR) German-Feuillet treatise as its conduct-side companion. Step_Coverage=None; conduct-and-civility prose, no step-table content. (1713). Imported from local collection.