Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Feuillet choreography: Malpied, 1770

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Feuillet choreography, Malpied, 1770
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Upon examination, we see the music at the top, with numbers "1", "2", "3" repeatedly written in: the dancers are to coordinate their movements to these places in the music.

Underneath the music there appears a rectangular shaped geometry. The paths for the dancer's appears along this geometric pattern. We easily see numbers "1", "2", "3", thus the movements of the dancers are to coordinate with the music. However, in addition to coordinating music and dance in a geometric pattern on a stage, we see Feuillet notation for foot and arm positioning. Of especial importance is that the Feuillet system of notation does not appear with a 9-line staff and clef notation such as that used by Stepanov. Feuillet systems of choreography used notation for motions of parts of the body, but were less detailed than some of those systems of choreography that developed later.

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