{{Short description|French author and priest (1520–1595)}} {{More footnotes needed|date=January 2010}} {{Infobox person | name = Thoinot Arbeau | image = Thoinot Arbeau - btv1b8415387v (cropped).jpg | alt = Jehan Tabourot | caption = | birth_name = Jehan Tabourot | birth_date = March 17, 1520 | birth_place = Dijon | death_date = {{death date and age|1595|07|23|1520|03|17}} | death_place = Langres | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Cleric }}
[[File:Petits Chanteurs de Passy - Pavane de Thoinot Arbeau.ogg|thumb|Les Petits Chanteurs de Passy sing the pavane ''Belle qui tiens ma vie'' of Thoinot Arbeau]]
'''Thoinot Arbeau''' ({{IPA|fr|twano aʁbo}}) is the anagrammatic{{efn|Prior to later reforms of French orthography, the letter J was not used in French, and thus the name ''Jehan'' would have been rendered ''Iehan''.}} pen name of French cleric '''Jehan Tabourot''' (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595).<ref>Viard, Georges: "Jean Tabourot, Chanoine de Langres et Maître à danser (1520–1595)", in: Viard, Georges: ''Jean Tabourot et son temps'', Langres:{{Full citation needed|date=July 2019}}<!--Publisher and ISBN needed.--> 1989, pages 11–57.</ref> Tabourot is most famous for his ''Orchésographie'', a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. He was born in Dijon and died in Langres.
==''Orchésographie'' and other work== ''Orchésographie'', first published in Langres, 1589,<ref>The title page's "Extraict du priuilege" is dated "Novembre 1588".</ref> provides information on social ballroom behaviour and the interaction between musicians and dancers. It is available online in facsimile and in plain text. An English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, is available in print from Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancers and musicians and includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes, a significant innovation in dance notation at that time.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} ''Orchésographie'' was partly written as a rebuttal of Calvinist treatises published at the time which argued that dance was an immoral and vain pastime.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Bram van Leuveren |title=Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572–1615 |date=2023 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-53781-1 |page=31 |chapter=1 - Unhappy Products of Unhappy Times: European Thought on Diplomacy and Festival Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries}}</ref>
He also published on astronomy: ''Compot et Manuel Kalendrier, par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et sçavoir le cours du Soleil et de la Lune et semblablement les festes fixes et mobiles que l’on doit célébrer en l’Eglise, suyvant la correction ordonné par notre Saint Pére Grégoire XIII'' [...Calendar, by which all people can easily learn and know the course of the Sun and of the Moon and similarly, the festivals with fixed and moveable dates which one celebrates in Church, according to the correction ordained by our Father Saint Gregory XIII], Langres: Jehan des Preyz, 1582, (cited in ''Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon'', I (Dijon: Académie de Dijon, 1924), 107).
Thoinot Arbeau was translated into English as ''Orchesography'' by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1925, and in a modern edition in 1967.{{Clarify|date=September 2019|reason=Is this a revised version of the Beaumont translation, or does it refer to the Mary Stewart Evans translation, mentioned above?}}
The pavane "Belle qui tiens ma vie" was arranged by Leo Delibes for his incidental music for Victor Hugo's play "Le roi s'amuse". Other sections were arranged or quoted by Saint-Saens (in the "ballet" from Ascanio) and Peter Warlock (in his Capriol Suite)
"Branle de l'Official" provided the tune for the 20th-century English Christmas carol "Ding Dong Merrily on High".
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==Further reading== *Kendall, G. Yvonne. 2001. "Arbeau, Thoinot". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Thoinot Arbeau}} * [https://www.graner.net/nicolas/arbeau/ Orchésographie] {{in lang|fr}} * [https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/arbeau_images.html Scans of the woodcuts] * [https://www.loc.gov/item/55003658/ ''Orchesographie''] From the Collections at the Library of Congress * [http://www.free-scores.com/search-uk.php?CATEGORIE=&operateur=AND&search=arbeau&menu= Arbeau free sheet music including Pavanne] * {{IMSLP|id=Arbeau, Thoinot}} * {{ChoralWiki}} *[https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/make-table.cgi?Composer=ArbeauT Free scores] Mutopia Project *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050508210255/http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.219/ Orchesographie]. Et traicte en forme de dialogue, par leqvel tovtes personnes pevvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances. Par Thoinot Arbeau demeurant à Lengres. Lengres, Imprimé par Iehan des Preyz, 1589. From the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division] at the Library of Congress *["Pavane" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ctkKhfC6Y] "Belle qui tient ma vie" performed by Esther Ofarim
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