Dancing through the Ages 1850-1875
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.
To order any or all of the books in this 31-book series go to LULU. The books are AUS$36 each (approximately US$27), plus postage which will diminish with the more books in your order. As your books will be sent from the nearest Lulu printer on your continent, you will not be paying for overseas shipping and will not be waiting long for the books to arrive. Orders are normally filled at local postage rates within a week.
N.B. I recommend that in addition to ordering the books pertaining to the period you first think of, you also order books from the adjacent period collections plus the invaluable Book 1: 'Orientation and Overview'. Indeed, because of the interconnectivity of dance over the 500 years covered by this series (and the cross-referencing between books in the series), I highly recommend the full set!
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Below are the front covers and contents of the three books that constitute Volume IX in the series.
Part 1: Dance in general (Book 26)
PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 7
Balls in general~ 8
The ball’s purpose ~ 8
The ball’s order ~ 8
The role of publishing in commonality of programming and practice ~ 10
England ~ 11
Court-hosted dancing ~ 11
Pleasure Garden dancing ~ 11
Rural dances according to Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy ~ 13
Private balls according to Mrs Henderson~ 17
Balls for different occasions ~ 18
Children’s ball ~ 22
The costume ball ~ 23
Hood’s 1868 The physiology of the dance ~ 25
The ball in Trollope’s 1875 The way we live now ~ 31
The first quadrille and the last galop ~ 34
France ~ 38
Looking in & back and forward & out ~ 38
Markowski and the invention of new dances ~ 39
Boullay’s damning of the new couples dances ~ 40
Court balls ~ 44
The private ball in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary ~ 45
The private ball in Zola’s La Curée ~ 47
The private ball in Alcott’s Little Women ~ 51
The private ball in art ~ 53
The Opera balls ~ 54
The public dance halls ~ 56
Public dancehall cancan ~ 64
Elsewhere in Europe ~ 67
Northern Europe ~ 67
Central Europe ~ 68
Italy ~ 72
America ~ 73
Regional variation ~ 73
The new couple’s dances ~ 75
Different types of balls ~ 76
The Calico ball ~ 78
Black dance ~ 88
Australia and New Zealand ~ 90
Growing sense of Australian identity ~ 90
Ball venues ~ 90
Account of a ball in Melbourne in 1870 ~ 91
Balls in illustrations ~ 93
Music and dance publications ~ 99
Masquerade Ball program Melbourne 1852 ~ 101
Assembly ball program Melbourne 1875 ~ 103
New Zealand ~ 106
India ~ 109
The ball according to Atkinson ~ 109
Poland ~ 112
Russia ~ 114
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 118
The Cotillion ~ 120
In France ~ 120
In Central and Eastern Europe ~ 126
America ~ 127
England ~ 130
The Country dance and its relatives ~ 132
Country dances displacing folk dances ~ 132
Sir Roger de Coverley / Virginia Reel ~ 133
The Galopade Country Dance ~ 139
Other contexts in which it survived ~ 139
Country dance hybrids ~ 141
The Mazurka ~ 144
In the east ~ 144
In France ~ 145
In England ~ 148
In America ~ 150
In Australia ~ 151
Mazurka couples dance hybrids ~ 153
The Mazurka Waltz ~ 153
The Polka Redowa ~ 153
The Polka Mazurka ~ 154
Further hybrids ~ 156
The Minuet ~ 157
The Galop, Polka & variants ~ 158
The Galop ~ 158
The Polka ~ 158
Variants ~ 160
The Polonaise ~ 162
In Poland ~ 162
In Russia ~ 163
In Germany ~ 163
In the west ~ 164
The Quadrille ~ 166
Its popularity ~ 166
Its adaptations ~ 168
Its aberration—the cancan ~ 174
Its ridicule ~ 175
The Reel ~ 177
The Schottische and its relatives ~ 179
Varsovienne / Varsovienna / Varsoviana ~ 183
The Waltz ~ 199
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 202
Style ~ 203
Etiquette ~ 207
1850s ~ 210
1860-1875 ~ 214
Honours ~ 220
The man’s bow ~ 220
The woman’s courtesy ~ 221
Different bows in different contexts ~ 222
Holds and positions ~ 223
Foot positions ~ 223
Arm holds ~ 225
Formations ~ 231
Figures ~ 232
The corner Allemande ~ 233
Ladies’ chain ~ 233
The St. Simonienne ~ 234
Steps in general ~ 236
In quadrilles ~ 236
In couple’s dances ~ 237
Steps in Beseda ~ 238
Furiant ~ 238
Hulán ~ 239
Kalamajka ~ 240
Obkročák ~ 240
Polka ~ 241
Redovák ~ 242
Řezanka ~ 242
Sousedská ~ 243
Mazurka steps ~ 244
Pas glissé (1) – hop first ~ 245
Pas glissé (2) – glide first ~ 246
Pas de basque (Polonois) ~ 248
Pas boiteux / Hobble (2) ~ 249
Coup de talon (1) / Pas Polonais / Hobble (1) ~ 250
Coup de talon (2) / Heel-clicks in a row ~ 252
Holubiec / Tour sur place ~ 252
Pas chassé ~ 254
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 257
Dance teaching ~ 258
Dance teachers in general ~ 258
The dancing academy ~ 258
The frequency of lessons ~ 260
The Turveydrops ~ 262
Markowski ~ 269
Prompting and calling ~ 275
Publications ~ 278
Music publishing ~ 278
Notation ~ 281
Anonymous works ~ 283
Anonymous books ~ 283
Music collections with dance instructions ~ 286
Authored works ~ 289
Bland ~ 289
Blasis ~ 289
Boullay ~ 290
Brookes ~ 290
Brooks ~ 290
Carpenter ~ 291
C.B. ~ 291
Coulon ~ 292
Czerwinski ~ 292
De Garmo ~ 293
Della Croce ~ 293
De Walden ~ 294
Desrat ~ 294
Dodworth ~ 295
Durang ~ 296
Ferrero ~ 297
Fertiault ~ 298
Gawlikowski ~ 298
Giraudet ~ 298
Gronow ~ 298
Henderson ~ 299
Hillgrove ~ 300
Hood ~ 300
Howe ~ 301
Hughes ~ 302
Ibarra ~ 302
Jarvis ~ 303
Kemp ~ 303
Kurth~ 303
Laborde ~ 304
Link ~ 304
Lowe ~ 305
Meyen ~ 306
Narrey ~ 306
Polkarius ~ 306
Reilley ~ 307
Renausy ~ 307
Ridgeway ~ 308
Roberts~ 308
Saint-Léon ~ 308
Spencer~ 308
Wallace ~ 309
Webster~ 309
Wesner ~ 310
Willcock ~ 310
Wivell ~ 310
Youens ~ 311
Part 2a: Dances in detail A-P (Book 27)
L’Anglicane ~ 6
Beseda ~ 9
La Boulangère (2) ~ 42
The Chase (2) / Chase the Lady (1) ~ 45
The Chase (3) / Chase the Lady (2) ~ 46
The Chase (4) / Chase the Squirrel ~ 47
Cheat the Lady / Coquette (2) ~ 49
Cinderella Set ~ 51
Cinderella Waltz ~ 55
Circassian Circle (3)—Hillgrove’s ~ 56
Cotillon-mazurka 1858 (Gawlikowski) ~ 63
Coulon’s Double Quadrille ~ 86
La Czarine ~ 101
Dashing White Sergeant (1) 109
The Empire Quadrille ~ 112
The Esmeralda (1) ~ 140
The Esmeralda (2a&b) ~ 142
The Esmeralda—Scherpf ~ 147
The Five Step Waltz (2) ~ 151
Galop (2) / Galopade (4) ~ 157
Galopade Country Dance (3) ~ 169
The Gitana Waltz / La Carlowitzka ~ 174
The Gorlitza ~ 177
The Gothic Dance ~ 192
Highland Reel (2) ~ 195
The Holly Berry ~ 197
Hongroise (1a&b) ~ 199
Hongroise (2) ~ 204
Hop Waltz (1) / La Sauteuse ~ 208
L’Impériale ~ 210
La Koska (1) ~ 220
La Koska (2) / La Coska ~ 223
The Lancers’ Quadrille (4) ~ 226
Lancers for 16 / Double Lancers ~ 239
The Mazurka Quadrille (5) / Philadelphia Mazurka Quadrilles ~ 257
The Mazurka Waltz (2) ~ 270
Money Musk (3) ~ 275
Mrs Henderson’s Double Quadrille ~ 278
The New Caledonian Quadrille ~ 290
Nine-Pin Quadrille ~ 297
The Norwegian Country Dance ~ 301
Opera Reel (2) / Celebrated Opera Reel ~ 310
Polka (4) ~ 312
Polka Country Dance ~ 325
Polka Mazurka (1) / The Australian ~ 327
Polka Mazurka (2a&b) ~ 336
Polka Redowa ~ 348
Pop Goes the Weasel (1) ~ 354
Pop Goes the Weasel (2) ~ 363
Prince Imperial Quadrille ~ 365
Princess Alice ~ 399
La Prisonniere ~ 402
Part 2b: Dances in detail Q-Z (Book 28)
Quadrille des Dames ~ 6
Quadrille Français (2d) / Russian Quadrilles / The Christmas Quadrilles ~ 24
Quadrille Français (2e) / Le Pacha Quadrille / The Rose Bay Quadrilles ~ 56
Quadrille Français (3) / Orpheus Quadrille ~ 70
Quadrille Français (4) ~ 81
Quadrille Russe ~ 116
Redowa (2) ~ 131
Redowa (3) ~ 147
La Russe Quadrille ~ 154
Russian Mazourka Quadrilles ~ 159
Sackett’s Harbor ~ 185
Schottische ~ 185
Sicilian Circle ~ 205
La Sicilienne ~ 212
Sir Roger de Coverley (2b) ~ 231
The Tempest ~ 239
La Tempête (3) ~ 243
La Tempête (4) ~ 252
The Triplet ~ 258
L’Universelle ~ 271
Vals des Patineurs ~ 286
Les Varietés Parisiennes ~ 289
La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (1) ~ 318
La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (2) ~ 328
La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (3) ~ 338
Waltz (5) / Glide Waltz ~ 341
The Zingarilla (1) ~ 358
The Zingarilla (2) / La Zingerilla ~ 363
Zulma l’Orientale ~ 365
Zwiefache ~ 373