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Recueil de Contredanses Nouvelles pour Flute ou Violon par A. Lefebvre, Premier Violoncelle du Grand Theatre de Lyon (Oeuvre 6, c.1792)
Publisher: A. Lefebvre (Premier Violoncelle du Grand Theatre de Lyon) / self-published through Lyon music sellers, 'chez Tous les Marchands de Musiques'; Enregistré à la Bibliothèque Impériale. From the collection of Richard Powers (POWERS/1792c_Lefebvre.PDF + ABBYY TXT 1792c_Lefebvre.txt, 87 lines). Pre-Revolutionary Lyonnais contredanse collection: 4 numbered contredanses for flute or violin, 'composé et dédié à ceux qui les achèteront' (composed and dedicated to those who buy them) — a characteristically bourgeois 1790s Lyonnais publication aimed at the bourgeois ballroom-dance market rather than the aristocratic Parisian court circuit. Each contredanse consists of 8-9 numbered figures using the standard late-18c French contredanse vocabulary: chassé-croisé, balloté, déchassé, traversé, demi-rond, tour dos-à-dos, tour des deux mains, balance-à-vos-dames, chaîne anglaise (entière / demie), grande chaîne (à demi), promenade, chassé-tous-8. Historic value: LOC and POWERS corpus coverage of Lyonnais (as distinct from Parisian) contredanse pedagogy at the Revolutionary-era transition (c.1790-1795) is sparse; the Grand Theatre de Lyon provincial-operatic affiliation (Lefebvre as Premier Violoncelle) places the collection in the post-Mozart pre-Beethoven pedagogy of the musician-composer-dancing-master hybrid role.Year: 1792Family: lefebvreCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by A. Lefebvre (Premier Violoncelle du Grand Theatre de Lyon) / self-published through Lyon music sellers, 'chez Tous les Marchands de Musiques'; Enregistré à la Bibliothèque Impériale. From the collection of Richard Powers (POWERS/1792c_Lefebvre.PDF + ABBYY TXT 1792c_Lefebvre.txt, 87 lines). Pre-Revolutionary Lyonnais contredanse collection: 4 numbered contredanses for flute or violin, 'composé et dédié à ceux qui les achèteront' (composed and dedicated to those who buy them) — a characteristically bourgeois 1790s Lyonnais publication aimed at the bourgeois ballroom-dance market rather than the aristocratic Parisian court circuit. Each contredanse consists of 8-9 numbered figures using the standard late-18c French contredanse vocabulary: chassé-croisé, balloté, déchassé, traversé, demi-rond, tour dos-à-dos, tour des deux mains, balance-à-vos-dames, chaîne anglaise (entière / demie), grande chaîne (à demi), promenade, chassé-tous-8. Historic value: LOC and POWERS corpus coverage of Lyonnais (as distinct from Parisian) contredanse pedagogy at the Revolutionary-era transition (c.1790-1795) is sparse; the Grand Theatre de Lyon provincial-operatic affiliation (Lefebvre as Premier Violoncelle) places the collection in the post-Mozart pre-Beethoven pedagogy of the musician-composer-dancing-master hybrid role. (1792). Imported from local collection.