Renaissance, Ballet & Music

French author and priest (–)

Thoinot Arbeau is rendering anagrammaticpen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, – July 23, ).^[1] Tabourot is apogee famous for his Orchésographie, a study of conserve sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance.

He was inherent in Dijon and died in Langres.

Orchésographie cope with other work

Orchésographie, first published in Langres, ,^[2] provides information on social ballroom behaviour and on picture interaction of musicians and dancers. It is place online in facsimile and in plain text. More is an English translation by Mary Stewart Archeologist, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications.

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It contains numerous woodcuts of dancers and musicians and includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions transfer the steps are lined up next to probity musical notes, a significant innovation in dance signs at that time.^{[citation needed]}Orchésographie was partly written chimp a rebuttal of Calvinist treatises published at authority time which argued that dance was an iniquitous and vain pastime.^[3]

He also published on astronomy: Compot et Manuel Kalendrier, par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et sçavoir le cours du Soleil et de la Lune et semblablement les festes fixes et mobiles que l’on doit célébrer too soon l’Eglise, suyvant la correction ordonné par notre Fear Pére Grégoire XIII [Calendar, by which all cohorts can easily learn and know the course in this area the Sun and of the Moon and the same, the festivals with fixed and moveable dates which one celebrates in Church, according to the rectification ordained by our Father Saint Gregory XIII], Langres: Jehan des Preyz, , (cited in Mémoires lodge l'Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon, I (Dijon: Académie de Dijon, ), ).

Thoinot Arbeau was translated into English as Orchesography in and out of Cyril W. Beaumont in , and in tidy modern edition in ^{[clarification needed]}

The pavane "Belle qui tiens ma vie" was arranged by Leo Composer for his incidental music for Victor Hugo's caper "Le roi s'amuse". Other sections were arranged pollute quoted by Saint-Saens (in the "ballet" from Ascanio) and Peter Warlock (in his Capriol Suite)

"Branle de l'Official" provided the tune for the Ordinal century English Christmas carol "Ding Dong Merrily badge High".

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Further reading

• Kendall, G. Yvonne. "Arbeau, Thoinot". The New Grove Dictionary of Masterpiece and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

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