Thoinot Arbeau is the anagram

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matic pen name

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 of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1519 - July 23, 1595). Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. He was born in Dijon

Dijon

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 and died in Langres

Langres

Langres is a commune in north-eastern France. It is a subprefecture of the Haute-Marne département in the Champagne-Ardenne region.-History:As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then Lingones, and now Langres.The town is built on a limestone...

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Orchésographie

Orchésographie provides information on social ballroom behaviour and on the interaction of musicians and dancers. It 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

Dover Publications

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. It contains numerous woodcut

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s of dancers and musicians and includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes, a significant innovation in dance notation

Dance notation

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 at that time.

Arbeau's "Orchésographie" was used as the basis for Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

's final ballet, Agon

Agon

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, and Peter Warlock

Peter Warlock

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's Capriol Suite

Capriol Suite

The Capriol Suite is a set of dances composed in October 1926 by Peter Warlock, and is considered one of his most popular works. Originally written for piano duet, Warlock later scored it for both string and full orchestras. According to the composer, it was based on tunes in Thoinot Arbeau's...

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External links

• Orchésographie
• Scans of the woodcuts
• A facsimile of the entire book at the US Library of Congress
• Arbeau free sheet music including Pavanne
• Free scores Mutopia Project
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