- Period: Renaissance (1450-1599)
- Country: France
- Born: March 17, 1520 in Dijon
- Died: July 23, 1595 in Langres
- Genres: Chamber Music
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(b Dijon, 17 March 1520; d Langres, 23 July 1595). French writer. After studying in Dijon, Poitiers and possibly Paris, he held ecclesiastical posts at Langres and became vicar-general there. His Orchésographie (1588), an illustrated dance manual, is invaluable, explaining the basic social dances of his time with a new tablature to correlate steps and music. It includes many tunes and reveals much about the way 16th-century dance music was performed.
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Arbeau, Thoinot (orig. Jehan Tabourot;b Dijon, 17 Mar. 1520 (some sources say 1519), d Langres, 21 July 1595 (some sources say 1596)). French dance writer, author of the famous L'Orchésographie. Published in 1588, this treatise on 16th-century dancing, fencing, piping, and drumming was written in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau and his student Capriol. It supplies descriptions of numerous dances, plus musical notation, with the steps and positions clearly defined, e.g. basse danse, pavane d'Espagne, galliarde, volte, courante, allemande, morisque, and 24 versions of the branle. Although Arbeau (a provincial writer) may not have accurately known how these dances were performed at court, his work provides insights into contemporary musical performance practice and also social convention (Capriol is instructed to ‘spit and blow [his] nose sparingly’ and to converse affably). It was translated into English by C. W. Beaumont in 1925 and inspired Ashton's ballet Capriol Suite (mus. Warlock, 1930).
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Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1519, Dijon - July 23, 1595, Langres). Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance.
The manual provides critical information on social ballroom behaviour and on the interaction of musicians and dancers.
Orchésographie is available online in facsimile and in plain text. There is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancing and musicians and also includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes (though this is misrepresented in some modern editions), a significant innovation in dance notation at that time.
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