Orchesography

Quick meaning: Orchesography is a noun meaning An enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance.

Meaning

An enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance.

Example Sentences

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.

The wellworn theme of bucolic self-importance is developed into the delightful portrait of Sir Harry Quickset; the self-absorption of the half-educated appears in the comical account of the dancing master who made the house shake while he studied 'orchesography' "; […]

Word Forms

• orchesographies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include choralography, antichoreography, orchestration, chironomy, homophony, chorus.

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