Dancing through the Ages 1650-1700
Dancing through the Ages (October, 2020) is a 10,800 page work offering background on, reconstruction of, and chorded music for nearly 1,000 dances from between from 1400 to 1900, as well as extensive notes analysing links between these dances, the evolution of dance forms, movement ideas and notation systems through this 500 period, and the changing nature of ball culture and dance sources in countries across the old and new word. The whole is supported by thousands of quotations, diagrams and illustrations from original sources.
The work is broken into 31 books, each of between 300 and 460 (average 350) double-sided A4 pages. After the 'Orientation and Overview' book 1, the work is organised into ten 'Volumes', each of 3 books.
Each 3-book Volume is devoted to a particular period and consists of 1,000 plus pages of research, discussion, analysis, illustrations, musical scores, dance reconstructions, source extracts, transcriptions and translations. The first book (Part 1a-d) looks at dancing in general (the social, political and geographic contexts in which dance and the institution of the ball was evolving; the nature and evolution of the period’s main forms of dance; dance elements such as style, etiquette, honours, holds, formations, figures and steps; developments in dance teaching, notation and publication, and period-relevant primary sources (including little known ones). The second and third books (Part 2a and Part 2b respectively) offer sources and music for, and reconstructions and analysis of dozens of dances from the relevant period, presented in alphabetic order.
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Below are the front covers and contents of the three books that constitute Volume IV in the series.
Part 1: Dance in general (Book 11)
Part 2a: Dances in detail A-L (Book 12)
Adson’s Saraband ~ 6
All in the Garden green ~ 10
Amaryllis ~ 14
Anna Maria ~ 19
Arcadia ~ 21
Argeers ~ 23
Argulius ~ 27
Aye me, or the Simphony ~ 30
Bartlett House ~ 33
The Bath ~ 35
The Begger Boy ~ 37
Bellamira / The Baulk (1) ~ 40
Black Bess ~ 44
Black Jack (1) & (2) ~ 47
Black Nag~ 52
Boat-man ~ 54
Bobbing Joe (2) ~ 57
Bonny grey-Ey’d morn ~ 61
The Bore, or Sweet William ~ 63
Braye’s Magott ~ 65
Broome ~ 67
Buff-coat / La Buffecote ~ 70
Catching of Quails ~ 76
Cheerily and Merrily ~ 79
Chestnut ~ 82
The Chirping of the Nightingale (2) ~ 85
Christchurch Bells (1) ~ 88
Christchurch Bells (2) ~ 93
Cobbler’s Jig ~ 107
Cold and Raw ~ 111
Confesse ~ 113
Contredance nouvelle figurée à huit ~ 117
Courant (3) & (4) ~ 126
The Country Coll ~ 171
Cuckolds all a Row (2) ~ 174
Cupid Garden ~ 178
The Cushion Dance (1) ~ 183
Daniel Cowper (1) ~ 189
Daphne~ 192
Dargason / The Sedany ~ 196
De’il take the Wars (1) ~ 200
The Devil’s Dream ~ 202
Drive the Cold Winter Away ~ 206
The Duke of Gloucester’s March ~ 209
Easter Tuesday ~ 212
Emperor of the Moon ~ 213
Epping Forrest ~ 219
Excuse me ~ 221
Faine I would ~ 229
The Fine Companion ~ 232
The Friar and the Nun (2) ~ 235
Gathering Peascods ~ 238
The Geud Man of Ballangigh ~ 240
The Glory of the West ~ 242
Graies Inn Maske (2) ~ 246
Greenwood (2) ~ 249
Grimstock ~ 253
The Gun Fleet (1) & (2) ~ 255
Half Hannykin ~ 260
Have at thy coat old woman ~ 263
The Health ~ 268
Hearts-ease (2) ~ 271
Hedge Lane (1a&b, 2a&b) ~ 274
Hide Parke ~ 281
Hobb’s Wedding ~ 283
Hockley in the Hole ~ 286
The Hole in the Wall ~ 289
If all the World were Paper ~ 291
The Irish Trot ~ 296
Jack a Lent ~ 302
Jack’s Maggot ~ 305
Jacob Hall’s Jig ~ 306
Jamaica / La bonne amitié ~ 308
Jenny plucked Pears ~ 312
Joan’s Placket (1) / Jeanne qui saute ~ 314
Jog on (2) ~ 318
The Jovial Beggars ~ 322
Juice of Barley ~ 324
Kemp’s Jig ~ 326
The Kettle Drum ~ 330
King of Poland ~ 333
The Last of Twenty ~ 336
Lady in the dark ~ 339
Lady lye near me (1) & (2) ~ 343
Lavena ~ 350
Lilli Burlero (1) ~ 353
The London Gentlewoman ~ 355
Lord of Carnavan’s Jig ~ 362
Love and a Bottle (1) ~ 365
The Lover’s Luck ~ 368
Lulle me beyond thee ~ 371
Part 2b: Dances in detail M-Z (Book 13)
Mad Robin (1) ~ 6
Mage on a Cree / Margery Cree (1) & (2) ~ 9
Maiden Lane ~ 13
The Maid in the Mill ~ 16
Maid in the Moon ~ 18
The Masque of the Seasons ~ 21
The Maurice Daunce ~ 37
Menuet Anglois / Mr Lane’s Minuet ~ 41
The Milking Payle / Merry Milkmaids (2) ~ 45
The Mill-field ~ 48
Millison’s Jig ~ 51
Mr Beveridge’s Maggot ~ 54
Mr Eaglesfield’s new Hornpipe ~ 56
Mr Isaac’s Maggot /Les Folies d’Isac ~ 58
Mr Lane’s Maggot ~ 66
Mr Lane’s Trumpet Minuet ~ 71
Mr Young’s Delight ~ 76
The Mulberry-Garden (1) & (2) ~ 79
Mundesse ~ 83
My Lady Cullen’s ~ 88
The New Bath ~ 91
New Boe Peep ~ 95
Newcastle ~ 97
The New Exchange (1) & (2) ~ 103
New Rigadoon ~ 108
New Roger / Young Roger ~ 110
The New Vagary / La Nouvelle Figure ~ 116
The Nightpiece ~ 122
Nobody’s Jig ~ 126
Nonesuch / A la Mode de France ~ 128
Northern Nancy ~ 134
Old Simon the King ~ 137
Pabana / Spanish Pavan (2) ~ 140
Parson’s Farewell ~ 151
Parson upon Dorothy (1) / The Shepherd’s Daughter ~ 156
Parson upon Dorothy (2) ~ 160
Paul’s Steeple ~ 163
Peppers Black ~ 168
Poole’s Hole (1) ~ 172
Prince George ~ 174
Prince Rupert’s March ~ 179
Punk’s Delight (1) & (2) ~ 182
Put on thy Smock on a Monday ~ 187
Putney Ferry ~ 189
Put up thy dagger ~ 192
Red House (1) ~ 195
Rigadoon (1) ~ 198
Row Well ye Mariners ~ 201
Rufty Tufty ~ 206
Sage Leaf ~ 209
Saint Martin ~ 212
St. Martin’s Lane ~ 216
The Saraband ~ 219
Scotch Cap ~ 223
The Scotch Measure ~ 226
Sellengers Round ~ 228
Shepheard’s Holiday ~ 232
Short and Sweet ~ 235
Short’s Garden ~ 237
The Siege of Limerick ~ 239
Skellemefago ~ 241
Singleton’s Slip ~ 244
The Slip ~ 248
Smith’s Rant (a) & (b) ~ 251
Spanish Jig (1) ~ 255
Spanish Gypsie / The Gypsies (2) ~ 257
The Spring ~ 260
Staines Morris ~ 262
Step Stately ~ 266
The Stingo, or the Oyl of Barley ~ 269
Strawberries and Cream (1) ~ 273
Sweet Kate ~ 276
Ten Pound Lass (2) ~ 278
The 29th of May ~ 281
Tythe Pig ~ 284
Under and Over / Over and Under ~ 287
Upon a Summers Day ~ 291
Up tailes all ~ 293
Valentine’s Day ~ 297
Vienna (1) ~ 305
Vienna (2) ~ 307
Well Hall ~ 311
What you please ~ 313
The Whirligig ~ 317
Whitehall ~ 320
Windsor Castle ~ 324
Woodicock ~ 327
PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8
England ~ 10
Dance under the republic ~ 10
The work of John Playford ~ 12
The links between Playford dance tunes and ballads ~ 13
Dances with links to the Stuart Masque ~ 16
Bargrave’s masque in Constantinople ~ 18
Dances with links to mid-17th century plays ~ 19
Dances with links to aristocrats ~ 22
Dances with continental links ~ 23
Dancing at the Inns of Court ~ 24
Change in Inns of Court dance practise and repertoire ~ 30
Concordance of dances in Inns of Court manuscripts ~ 31
The Restoration and the new French Influence ~ 34
Milton and celestial dance ~ 38
Dances with links to late-17th century plays ~ 39
Dances in late-17th century opera ~ 40
Country dance as a ballroom dance form ~ 44
Dance scene and dance nature diversity ~ 45
The dances in John Shirley’s The triumph of wit ~ 48
France ~ 50
Louis XIV and the Académie royale de danse ~ 50
Increasing theatrical sophistication ~ 57
The Masquerade ~ 58
The formal Versailles ball according to Rameau ~ 59
The formal Versailles ball according to others ~ 63
Balls in the Versailles garden’s salle du bal. ~ 66
Other balls at Versailles ~ 69
Balls in Paris ~ 70
The function of a ball ~ 70
The importation of the English Country Dance ~ 72
Elsewhere ~ 76
Italy ~ 76
Germany and Austria~ 78
Poland ~ 81
Holland ~ 83
Scotland and Ireland ~ 88
Sweden ~ 88
America ~ 89
Spain ~ 89
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 92
Dance order and the Baroque suite ~ 94
The Almain /Allemande ~ 100
The Almain ~ 100
Allemanding ~ 102
The Bourrée ~ 104
The Branle ~ 105
The Country dance ~ 107
Forms and mechanisms in the 1650s & 60s ~ 107
Country dances in non-Playford English sources ~ 109
Table of late 17th century English manuscript country dance descriptions ~ 110
Table of longways country dances that appear in multiple sources ~ 115
New propensities after 1675 and Lorin manuscripts of the 1680s ~ 120
Lorin on the contredance à deux ~ 126
Lorin on the contredance à quatre ~ 127
Lorin on the contredance à six ~ 128
Lorin on doubling up a contredanse ~ 130
Lorin on contredances for fixed numbers ~ 132
Lorin on contradance medleys ~ 133
Lorin on contradance introductions ~ 134
Lorin on dance invention ~ 135
A concordance of Lorin’s dances ~ 135
William Jones and the ‘Parties of six’ ~ 137
Improper contradances ~ 139
The Courant ~ 141
Its importance ~ 141
Its evolution ~ 144
Wycherley’s and Pasch’s Courants ~ 146
The Minuet~ 153
Its origin—the Lully-invented theory~ 153
Its origin—the courant-derived theory~ 153
Its origin—the galliard-derived theory~ 153
Its origin—the branle-derived theory~ 154
Its origin—my ballo-derived theory~ 155
The spread of the Minuet ~ 157
Pavan and galliard ~ 158
The Pavan ~ 158
The Galliard ~ 159
The Polish Dance ~ 160
The ‘relay mixer’ ~ 161
Other dance forms ~ 162
The Rigaudon ~ 162
The Hornpipe and jig ~ 162
The Jig ~ 163
The Masquerade ~ 164
The Sarabande ~ 165
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 168
Style ~ 169
Etiquette ~ 171
Etiquette according to Phillips ~ 171
Etiquette according to de Courtin ~ 172
Etiquette according to Rameau ~ 174
Kissing ~ 176
The Bow ~ 177
The honours that open and close a dance ~ 179
Formations ~ 185
Couple facing couple ~ 185
3-facing-3~ 185
Rounds ~ 185
Squares ~ 186
Couples on the periphery of dance space ~ 187
3-couple longways ~ 187
4 couple longways ~ 187
Non-progressive longways for as many as will ~ 187
Progressive longways for as many as will ~ 188
Other formations ~ 189
Holds and positions ~ 190
Arm and hand holds ~ 190
Orientations ~ 193
Presence ~ 193
Partner / contrary ~ 193
Top / bottom ~ 193
Heads / sides ~ 193
Up / down ~ 193
Above / below ~ 194
Proper / improper ~ 194
Figuring tendencies and propensities ~ 195
Timing ~ 195
Figure sequencing ~ 195
Figure echoing (relaying with overlap) ~ 196
Figures into and out of lines ~ 197
Counter-movements ~ 197
Figures ~ 199
Arches ~ 199
Arming ~ 199
Back-to-back ~ 200
Back Ring ~ 200
Cast (off) ~ 200
Chain / Bootlace ~ 201
Change (places) ~ 201
Circle ~ 203
Clapping ~ 204
Cross ~ 204
Fall ~ 205
Fall back / Back ~ 205
Figure ~ 206
Foot it~ 207
Gesture ~ 208
Go below ~ 209
Go about […] not turning your faces ~ 209
Go round about ~ 210
Gypsy ~ 210
Hands across ~ 210
Hands round ~ 210
Hey ~ 211
Kiss ~ 214
Lead ~ 214
Lead down / slip down ~ 214
Lead up a double ~ 215
Meet ~ 216
Open and close ~ 217
Poussette ~ 217
Right and left ~ 218
Set ~ 218
Set with elbow & foot / side with foot & elbow ~ 220
Sides / Siding ~ 221
To the left hand, etc ~ 222
Turn ~ 223
Turn back to back ~ 224
Turn off ~ 226
Turn single ~ 226
Up a double ~ 226
Weave ~ 226
Steps in general ~ 227
Simplicity in country dancing stepping~ 227
Variety in country dancing stepping ~ 227
Contradance stepping in 3/2 ~ 231
The gavotte step in longways country dancing ~ 233
Steps in the Spanish Pabana ~ 233
Steps in detail ~ 235
Assemblé ~ 235
Balancé ~ 235
Bazio / Vacío~ 235
Bourrée à deux mouvements (pas de) ~ 236
Cabriole / Cabriola / Caper ~ 236
Campanella ~ 238
Cargado ~ 239
Carrerilla ~ 239
Chassé ~ 240
Coupé ~ 240
Courante (pas de) 240
Courante (temps de) ~ 241
Cruzado ~ 241
Degagé ~ 241
Double ~ 241
Encaje ~ 242
Fleuret / Floreo / Floreta~ 242
Jetté ~ 243
Llamada ~ 243
Menuet (pas de) ~ 244
Paso ~ 244
Quatropeado ~ 244
Rompido ~ 245
Sacudido ~ 246
Saute / Sauté ~ 246
Simple / Single ~ 247
Sissone (pas de) ~ 247
Slip ~ 247
Tourné (Pas) ~ 248
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 249
Dance as a study ~ 250
The Vocation ~ 252
Wycherley’s The gentleman-dancing master ~ 257
Publications ~ 268
John Playford’s 1651 English Dancing master ~ 268
Subsequent Dancing master editions ~ 272
Notation ~ 273
Playford’s system ~ 273
The search for a new system ~ 276
Lorin’s system(s) ~ 276
Favier’s system ~ 280
De la Haise’s system ~ 282
Beauchamp’s system ~ 282
Calling ~ 284
Anonymous works ~ 287
The Inns of Court manuscripts ~ 287
The Sloane manuscript ~ 288
Steps for country dancing manuscript ~ 288
BL Add. MS 41996 fol.18 ~ 289
Authors and their works ~ 290
Bargrave ~ 290
Beauchamp~ 290
Boys ~ 290
Bray ~ 291
de Pure ~ 292
Jaque ~ 292
Lorin ~ 292
Ménestrier ~ 293
Pasch ~ 294
Playford ~ 295
Selden ~ 299
Shirley ~ 299
Wycherley ~ 300