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The Compleat Dancing Master: The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717), Vols. 1 & 2
The Compleat Dancing Master The Compleat Dancing Master A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's iRechtschaffener Tantzmeister/i Vols 1 2 - 1717 Author:Gottfried Taubert, Tilden Russell (translator) The Compleat Dancing Master is a translation of the Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717), by Gottfried Taubert, a monumental and encyclopedic treatise on the universe of dance during the musical High Baroque and the dawn of the Beauchamps-Feuillet dance notation system. Taubert (1679?1746) worked in Danzig (now Gdansk) and later in Leipzig at the... more » same time as Johann Sebastian Bach. His work is in three parts, covering the history, morality, and social utility of dance; the theory and practice of dance; and the mátier of the dancing master, the teacher-student relationship, and the occasions and customs connected with social dance. Due to its sheer vastness and linguistic difficulties, the Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister has been largely ignored until recently, even by those who read German. Volume I of The Compleat Dancing Master provides an overview of Taubert's magnum opus and a master key to some of his most important themes and ideas?in short, a mode of entry into Taubert's world?and includes a biographical sketch and essays on specific topics whose wider significance is discussed in the order of their presentation by Taubert. Volume II is an English translation of Taubert's entire, 1231 page text, including front and back matter?the first complete translation of this book in any language. The Compleat Dancing Master is addressed to dance historians, historical dancers, choreographers, musicologists, students of German eighteenth-century culture, and dix-huitičmistes of all types.« less