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Radio 3,15 Sep 2019,53 mins

Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie

The Early Music Show

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Choreographer and dance historian Darren Royston joins Lucie Skeaping to explore the 16th-century dancing manual, "Orchesographie", published in 1589 in Langres by a French cleric who went under the pseudonym of Thoinot Arbeau. The manual is in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau himself and a fictional pupil by the name of Capriol, and the dances and music therein became familiar all across Europe.

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