Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction to the Dover Edition Preface to the First Edition Bibliography (to the First Edition) Original Title Page Original Publisher's Note Orchesography: A Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue Original Certificate of Copyright Translator's Notes Editor's Notes to Dover Edition Bibliography (Dover Edition) Introduction to the Labanotation Labanotation Index

About the Author

Thoinot Arbeau is an anagram of Jehan Tabourot (1519-95), a French cleric who strongly advocated dance for purposes of exercise, courtship and manly display, declaring it as virile a pursuit as fencing and military marching.