GROSSATESTA, Gaetano, c.1720-c.1774
Balletti in occasione delle felicissime Nozze di Sua Eccellenza La Signora Loredana Duodo con Sua Eccellenza il Signor Antonio Grimani composti da Gaetano Grossatesta Maestro di Ballo in Venezia e dallo stesso Presentati all’Eccellentissimo Sposo. A cura di / Edited by: Gloria Giordano. Traduzione /Translation: Ken Hurry. Traduzioni delle fonti coreografiche del XVIII secolo / Translation from Eighteenth-Century Dance Sources by Angene Feves.
    

Dance choreography for the Duodo-Grimanni Marriage

 

  
Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 21. Lucca, [2005]. 8°, 127, 26 pp. With CD.

Beautiful sepia facsimile of a recently rediscovered ms with dance choreography. Written for the 1726 Duodo-Grimanni marriage the work is the only extant Italian choreography based on French dance composition and style and written in Beauchamps-Feuillet notation. Historical commentary, and biographical introduction in Italian-English. Includes Grossatesta’s complete work list. Wrappers. $53
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