I have hereto annexed the print of a Chinese procession taken from the description of a traveller into that country; by which a good composer would well know how to make a proper choice of what might be exhibited, and what was fit to be left out; especially according as the dance should be, serious or burlesque. In the last case; even the horses might be represented by a theatrical imitation.
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- The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
Published in 1772
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