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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 60", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19703", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1935-1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1967"}
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{"value"=>"Papers relating to the Guglielmo Ebreo manuscript"}
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini</span>/<span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> materials consist of correspondence and research pertaining to the <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> manuscript and the Jewish dancing masters. The correspondence is mainly between <span class=\"persname\">Walter Toscanini</span> and scholars of <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span>. The research materials vary from articles with <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> annotations to <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> own compilation of data. Photocopies of dancing master's treatises are included with annotations by <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini</span>."}
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{"value"=>"Papers relating to the Guglielmo Ebreo manuscript, *MGZMD 60. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Toscanini, Walter, 1898-1971", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Walter Toscanini was born (1893) in Turin, Italy, son of maestro Arturo Toscanini. He attended the Universities of Urbino and Pavia where he obtained a law degree, although he never practiced.</p> <p>During WWI as a captain posted in an Austrian farmhouse, he came across an interesting dance book. He held onto this little treasure and later found himself dating an Italian ballerina, Cia Fornaroli. He, as a matter of courting, often presented her with rare dance books he searched out just for her. This was the beginning of the wonderful, rare dance book collection of Walter Toscanini who became known as a rare book collector and dealer.</p> <p>His wife, Cia Fornaroli, b. Milan 16 Oct. 1888 d. 16 Aug. 1954, is considered the greatest Italian dancer of her generation. She trained with Cecchetti and at La Scala ballet school. She was the premiere danseuse at the New York Metropolitan Opera House from 1910-1914. She danced with the Pavlova company as a prima ballerina assoluta at La Scala (1921-1932). Because of Fascist attacks on her and her husband, they moved to New York in 1933 where she conducted her own school from 1943 to 1950.</p> <p>After her death, Walter Toscanini in 1955 handed over a great part of their collection of dance memorabilia to the Dance Collection and entitled it the “Cia Fornaroli Collection” as a memorial to her. He also, at that time, presented much of his personal collection of prints relating to the ballet.</p> <p>The gift included more than 2,000 prints, 3,500 librettos, 850 pieces of music, 23,000 letters and manuscripts, and 15,000 clippings, photographs, and playbills.</p> <p>In 1965, Walter Toscanini gave to the Dance Collection the earliest and most significant item of his collection, the Guglielmo Ebreo manuscript. Ebreo, a student of Domenico da Piacenza, wrote it probably with the help of a student, in Tuscany around 1465. He used it as a teaching tool when he instructed social dances in the Italian courts. The manuscript, entitled <span class=\"title\">Trattato della danza</span>and <span class=\"title\">De Praticha sue arte tripudii vulghare opusudum,</span>describes the necessary qualifications of a dancer and the dances he created.</p> <p>The manuscript is one of six known. The other five are stored in Paris, Florence, Modena and Siena and are formal manuscripts for court libraries. Toscanini's Ebreo manuscript is a plain, homely, practical manuscript for Ebreo's own use. It consists of 70 pages, 34-37 lines on each page of paper, with a watermark dating from about 1465. It explains the theoretical precepts of the art of dancing and gives descriptions of 23 bassedances and 32 balli.</p> <p>Three of these bassedances and 13 of the balli are not found in any of the other known treatises. The manuscript has never been formally printed.</p> <p>Walter Toscanini's materials related to the Ebreo manuscript were donated to the Dance Collection in 1972, one year after his death.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini</span>/<span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> materials consist of correspondence and research pertaining to the <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> manuscript and the Jewish dancing masters. The correspondence is mainly between <span class=\"persname\">Walter Toscanini</span> and scholars of <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span>. The research materials vary from articles with <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> annotations to <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> own compilation of data. Photocopies of dancing master's treatises are included with annotations by <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini</span>.|||Language: In English, Italian and Russian.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Papers relating to the Guglielmo Ebreo manuscript is arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c360979'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>43 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The “Correspondence” section is made up of letters to and from <span class=\"persname\">Walter Toscanini</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Professor Bassani</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Professor Dante Bianchi</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ingrid Brainard</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Fredrick Crane</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Mabel Dolmetsch</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Otto Kinkeldey</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Genevieve Oswald</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Professor Cecil Roth</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Walter Schatzky</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Dr. Cesare Valabrega</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Lawrence Witten</span>; and are chronologically organized. The letters are both of personal and business nature in English, Italian and Russian.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c360989'>II. Toscanini's Notes of His Study of the Italian Jewish Dancing Masters</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>10 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included in “<span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> Notes” are his personal records of his studies of the Italian dancing masters. They are typed and hand written. Dances are described with references made to the manuscripts in which they were found. Photocopied materials with <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> annotations, and music scores are included.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c361002'>III. Copies of Treatises and Related Information</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>“Copies of Treatises and Related Information” includes photocopies of portions of manuscripts: <span class=\"persname\">Siena</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Modena</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span>, and “Qui va. due Fighure in danza e uno fonatore.” Also included here is <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> microfilm list.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c361008'>IV. Bibliography</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The “Bibliography” is <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> personal listing. A few pages of endnotes from “Gesamt Katalog der Wiettendrucke” are included.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c361011'>V. Articles of Reference Used by Walter Toscanini</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>8 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>“Articles of Reference” comprises <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini's</span> collected articles of reference concerning <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span>. Some include annotations. One article “Notizie e Appunti sui Maestri di Ballo Ebrei in Italia nel 1400” was written by <span class=\"persname\">Toscanini</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19703#c361020'>VI. Manuscript Business</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>20 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>“Manuscript Business” includes evaluations of the <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> manuscript by <span class=\"persname\">Witten</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Fletcher</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Kraus</span>, as well as formal and informal notes regarding the welfare of the manuscript. In 1989 <span class=\"persname\">Witten</span> appraised the <span class=\"persname\">Ebreo</span> manuscript for insurance purposes as it was to be displayed in the Jewish museum.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Cia Fornaroli Collection, Gift of Walter Toscanini. Received: 1972.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The following material was received with the origional gift, but has been separated from the manuscript collection. The location of the materials is indicated.</p> <p>Pamphlet - <span class=\"title\">The Earliest Dance-Manuals</span>by Artur Michel, 1945 - Location: *MGP 89-5628</p>"}
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1935
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1967
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Materials relating to a 15th century manuscript by the Italian-Jewish dancing master Guglielmo Ebreo entitled (in Italian) Trattato dell'arte del ballo, and also (in Latin) De Praticha sue arte tripudi vulghare opuschulam. The manuscript was given to the Dance Collection in 1965 by Walter Toscanini</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>The Toscanini/Ebreo materials consist of correspondence, Toscanini's research notes on the various known Jewish dancing master manuscripts, photocopies of the treatises, and reference articles about them</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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eng
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rus
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1935
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{"value"=>"In English, Italian, and Russian"}
{"value"=>"English Italian Russian"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Teresa Heiland.</p>"}
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98 items in 23 folders
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1935
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1967