la Bacchante par Mr. Pecour

• Dance Type: ball dance for a couple in 8 figures

  Fig. 1 - position mouse to view figure 1 on the right: FIG. 1

  Fig. 2 - position mouse to view figure 2 on the right: FIG. 2

  Fig. 3 - position mouse to view figure 3 on the right: FIG. 3

  Fig. 4 - position mouse to view figure 4 on the right: FIG. 4

  Fig. 5 - position mouse to view figure 5 on the right: FIG. 5

  Fig. 6 - position mouse to view figure 6 on the right: FIG. 6

  Fig. 7 - position mouse to view figure 7 on the right: FIG. 7

  Fig. 8 - position mouse to view figure 8 on the right: FIG. 8

• Choreographer: Louis-Guillaume Pécour, the composer of ballets for King Louis XIV of France during the late 1600s and early 1700s.

• Earliest Dance Source: Ve RECUEIL DE DANSES DE BAL pour l’année 1707. Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Paris: l'auteur, 1706, p. 1-8.
  F-Po/Rés. 841(11)
  # in Little/Marsh inventory: LM/1280; # in Lancelot catalog: FL/1706.1/01
  
  
• Dance Rhythm Type: bourée

• Music Source: Act 4, scene 5 of Philomèle, an opera written by Louis de La Coste in 1705 for the Académie Royale de Musique, which would later become the Paris Opéra.
  
  
• Music Title in Score: Entrée des Bachantes
  Access definition of Bacchante in Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, 1st edition, 1694

• Additional publications and manuscripts of the dance:
  Little/Marsh La Danse Noble Inventory #s:
  [c1725]-Ram, p. 51
  [c1728]-Ram, p. 51
  [c1732]-Ram, p. 51
  Ms-30, p. 322
  Ms-70, p. 629
  
  Lancelot La Belle Dance Catalogue #s:
  FL/1725.2/ p. 51-57 (Rameau)
  FL/1728.1/ p. 51-57 (Rameau)
  FL/Ms17.1/ p. 322-329 (F-Pn/Ms fr 14884)
  FL/Ms18.1/ p. 629-636 (F-Po/Rés. 934)

• Other Ball Dances in Ve RECUEIL...pour l’année 1707:
  La Matelotte par Mr. Feuillet
  Le Menuet a quatre