What does "Orchésographie" mean?

[Allen]

Dear all

Just wondering if anyone could tell me what the word "Orchésographie" means.

I have looked the word up in my French dictionary but to no avail.

"Orchésographie" is a dance manual written by Thoinot Arbeau:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoinot_A ... ite_note-1

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

[jserraglio]

orchesography => "choreography" in its secondary meaning as the written notation of dancing.

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orchesography, n.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French orchésographie.
Etymology: < French orchésographie (1588 in Middle French in the title of a work by Thoinot Arbeau; compare quot. 1837) < ancient Greek ὄρχησις dancing ( < ὀρχεῖσθαι to dance (see orchestra n.) + -σις -sis suffix) + French -ographie -ography comb. form.
N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ǭɹkĭsǫ·grăfi) /ɔːkɪˈsɒɡrəfɪ/.

The description or notation of dance movements and positions by means of diagrams, etc. Cf. choreography n. a.

1706 J. Weaver (title) Orchesography, or the art of dancing by characters and demonstrative figures.
1776 J. Hawkins in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 566/2 The art of Orchesography, or denoting the several steps and motions in dancing by characters, was invented by M. Beauchamp.
1837 Southern Lit. Messenger 3 A713/1 Thoinet Arbeau..printed a curious treatise entitled Orchesography, in which he was the first to note the steps of a dance in the same manner as that of music.
1877 Encycl. Brit. at Dance, Chorography, or orchesography, the art of dancing notation.

[Allen]

Wow, that's quick and very detailed.

Thanks a million.