orchesography
orchesography noun: an enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance.
Noun
orchesography (usually uncountable, plural orchesographies)
- An enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance
- Some years ago, Thoinot Arbeau, a dancing-master of Paris, gave an orchesography, wherein all the steps and motions of the dance are written or noted down, as the sounds of a song are scored in music.1826, Charlotte Matilda Hunt, The Little World of Knowledge, Arranged Numerically. Designed for Exercising the Memory, and as an Introduction to the Arts and Sciences, History, Natural Philosophy...
- I do not deem it necessary, while dancing is so universally practiced, and conceded to be an agreeable and innocent diversion from the ordinary duties of life, to quote extracts in its favor from the Bible, ancient Greek authors, historical dictionaries, philosophers, poets, and celebrated men and...1879, William B. De Garmo, The Dance of Society
Forms of orchesography
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Origin of orchesography
Borrowed from French orchésographie.
Questions about orchesography
- What does orchesography mean?
- Orchesography means an enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance.
- What part of speech is orchesography?
- Orchesography is a noun.
- What is the plural of orchesography?
- The plural of orchesography is orchesographies.
Words near orchesography in the dictionary
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