Choreographics: A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present

392 Pages·1998·8.514 MB·English

by  Ann Hutchinson Guest

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Choreo-Graphics
A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth
Century to the Present
By
Ann Hutchinson Guest
Language of Dance Centre, London
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First published 1989 by Gordon and Breach Publishers
Published 2014 by Routledge
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This edition 1998
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Copyright © 1989 by Ann Hutchinson Guest.
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Cover: The famous rose pattern floor plan of the contrapasso
from Caroso’s book Nobilitá di Dame, 1600.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Guest, Ann Hutchinson
Choreographies : a comparison of dance notation systems
from the 15th century to the present
1. Dance notation - History
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792.8’2’09
ISBN 978-9-057-00003-4 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-07843-4 (eISBN)
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