Vitalizing Music History Teaching

Jeanne Halley
A Mysterious Lacuna: Reconsidering the Exclusion
of French Baroque Music and Dance from the Curricula

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Excerpts from Chorégraphie examplify the new codified notation and include a choreography for La Folia (Folie d’Espagne)

1) symbols and signs representing the basic step-segments for social and ballet dance

2) a table of the mutations from true to false positions

3) step symbols on each side of the dance tracts indicate forward, backward and sideward march steps

4) representation of march steps on each side of several dance tracts all moving around the same circle

5) table of composite step units for the "Bouree" dance

6) symbols for arm motions

7) a choreography for Folie d’Espagne (La Folia)

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