Biography
Milan-based dance master Negri produced his most significant publication with "Le Gratie d'Amore." The volume stands as a primary source on fellow practitioners of the period, the dancers he trained, and the spectacles he mounted, while codifying choreographic principles that detail step sequences and provide directions for roughly forty distinct dances. Instrumentation and staging practices receive equal attention throughout its pages. Negri further outlined the specialized methods men employed to perform the galliard through multiple variations, indicating the precise number of steps that fit within designated time spans and mensural frameworks. Descriptions of dances arranged for two couples, otherwise undocumented in contemporary sources, also appear here. The scores themselves, which join several musical passages into shifting sequences, reveal much about the performance practices of the era.