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9. Historical Examples of the Forms of the Minuet

Chapter of: The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition(pp. 259–298)

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Title9. Historical Examples of the Forms of the Minuet
ContributorElizabeth Svarstad(author)
Petri Hoppu(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0314.09
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0314/chapters/10.11647/obp.0314.09
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightElizabeth Svarstad and Petri Hoppu
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-04-25
Long abstractThe chapter discusses various forms of the minuet through European and Nordic sources. It presents the ordinary French court minuet and its practice as well as several other minuet forms. The examples of the Nordic sources containing a remarkable amount of information on the minuet are a Norwegian manuscript from around 1750, dance books by Swedish dancing master Sven Henrik Walcke, Swiss dancing master J.J. Martinet’s dance book from 1797, translated to Danish in 1801, Danish dancing masters Pierre Jean Laurent’s and Jørgen Gad Lund’s dance books from the early nineteenth century, as well as Norwegian dance teacher Janny Isachsen’s dance manual from 1886.
Page rangepp. 259–298
Print length40 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Elizabeth Svarstad

(author)
Assistant Professor in Baroque Dance at Norwegian Academy of Music
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4134-6417

Elizabeth Svarstad PhD is an Assistant Professor in baroque dance at The Norwegian Academy of Music. She holds a Master of Arts and a PhD in dance studies from The Norwegian University for Science and Technology. Educated dancer from The Norwegian Academy of Ballet, she works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher and has participated in and created a vaste number of performances in Norway and abroad. Among her research articles are 'Traces of Dance and Social Life: A Dance Book and its Context' in Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860. Questioning Canons, edited by Randi Margrete Selvik, Svein Gladsø and Annabella Skagen. London: Routledge, 2021, and 'Dance and Social Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Christiania' in Performing Arts in Changing Societies edited by Randi Margrete Selvik, Svein Gladsø and Anne Margrete Fiskvik /Taylor and Francis, 2020), 'Kort Udtog: A Danish Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Kurtzer Entwurff Der Nutzbarkeit Des Künstlichen Tantz-EXERCITII (1727) ' in Tauberts Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (Leipzig 1717) edited by Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, and Tilden Russell (Verlag Frank & Timme, 2019), and Svarstad, Elizabeth, and Nygaard, Jon. 'A Caprice – The Summit of Ibsen's Theatrical Career' in Ibsen Studies 16, no. 2 (2016): 168–85.

Petri Hoppu

(author)
Principal Lecturer at the Department of Media and Performing Arts at Oulu University of Applied Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6394-5210

Petri Hoppu PhD studied ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere, Finland, and graduated in 1995. He continued his studies in Tampere and wrote his doctoral thesis (1999) on the minuet in Finland. Today he is a Principal Lecturer at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in dance studies at Tampere University. His areas of expertise include theory and methodology in dance anthropology as well as research of Skolt Saami dances, Finnish-Karelian vernacular dances and Nordic folk dance revitalization. He has been a project manager of several research projects, including Dance in Nordic Spaces (2007–2012) and KanTaMus (developing common pedagogy for folk dance and music, 2021–2023). He has written several peer-reviewed articles and co-edited the book Nordic Dance Spaces: Practicing and Imagining a Region (2014) with professor Karen Vedel and Dance Research Journal 52 (1) Special Issue In and Out of Norden - Dance and the Migratory Condition (2020) with professor Inger Damsholt. He has been the editor of the only annual Nordic folk dance research journal, Folkdansforksning i Norden, since 2002. He has been on boards of international dance scholars’ associations and giving lectures at universities in Europe and the US.

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