On the pages under this banner I offer content and purchase information on resources that I, Dr John Gardiner-Garden, have produced to help people better understand and enjoy our wonderful dance and dance music heritage. Click on picture or links below to go to a web-page showing more detail contents of works.
Scroll down for the recently added information on the new 33-book magnum opus Dancing through the Ages. Enjoy exploring these notes and the linked to pages!
Under Lost Dances of Earthly Delights Volume 1 and Volume 2 you can discover the books and full-band CD sets (the result of a 6-year project some years ago) that will open up to you the wonderful music and dance world of the Bordonians. To order these famous (for those who know them!) works you have to email us- price for 1 book and its 4 included CDs is AUS$85 plus postage, and for 2 books and their 8 CDs AUS$130 plus postage.
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Under The Christmas Carol Dance Book you can find out about a work which is a must for anyone who wants to bring song and dance together in the festive season. You can buy this volume in hard copy or e-book form from Lulu or, for AUS$30, add it to a larger order direct from us by emailing us.
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Under Odd Delights, you will find a small book of newly devised or discovered dances which you can buy for AUS$25 from Lulu or, for AUS$20, add it to a larger order direct from us by emailing us.
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*NEW* ------------- Dancing through the Ages (33 books) -------------*NEW*
Under Dancing through the Ages Overview and Companions, 1400-1550, 1550-1600, 1600-1650, 1650-1700, 1700-1750, 1750-1800, 1800-1825, 1825-1850, 1850-1875, 1875-1900, you will find the covers and contents for the 33-books in a giant series that was 30 years in the making and finally released in June 2018. It will be a library at your finger-tips (and the last two books in the series, the 'Companions' will offer you very hand on-stage extracts).
Each book consists of between 225 and 440 (average 330+) double-sided A4 pages and weighs on average about 1kg. Together the work consists of 10,000+ page weighs more than 30 kg, and offers background on, reconstruction of, and chorded music for nearly 1,000 dances from between from 1400 to 1900. The work also offers 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 world. The whole is supported by thousands of quotations, diagrams, and illustrations from original sources.
In between Book 1 ('Orientation and Overview') and Books 32 &33 ( ‘Companion’ 1&2) the series is divided into 10 Volumes. Each Volume consists of 3 books (that total on average of 1,000 pages) devoted to a particular period and each is divided into 2 parts. Each Volume’s Part 1 (one book) is devoted to dance in general (with period sources in transcription and translations but generally not facsimiles) and is itself divided into Part 1a: Dance context on the social, political and geographic context in which dance was evolving in the relevant period; Part 1b: Dance forms on the nature and evolution of the period’s main categories or types of dance; Part 1c: Dance elements with source-based considerations of style, etiquette, honours, holds, formations, figures and steps; and Part 1d: Dance teaching on the dancing master vocation, developments in notation and publication, teaching methods, calling, and an annotated bibliography of dance-relevant material written in the period. Each Volume’s Part 2 (two books) is devoted to dances in detail, alphabetically-ordered reconstructions of dances that seem to have had their first recording in the period which is the subject of the Volume. Each dance entry includes a summary box (abbreviated dance figure and step directions), a few starting words (on formation, mechanism and musical structure), music (chorded melody line, with scores in facsimile), a reconstruction table (with relevant texts transcribed, translated, tabulated, arranged to match musical phrase, and annotated to improve understanding and offer possible dance calls), notes offering background, identifying problems and suggesting solutions, and facsimiles of as many relevant primary sources as possible.
To order individual books in this 33-book series go to our 'spotlight' page on the publisher's site Lulu.com. There it is AUD$35 for any of books 1 to 31, AUD$45 for spiral-bound Companion book 32&33- plus postage (which will diminish with the more books in your order) minus a 15% DISCOUNT by applying at the checkout the code FWD15 (current at 29 June 2018 for short time). N.B. I recommend that in addition to the books pertaining to the period you first think of, you also order books from the adjacent period collections and Book 1: 'Orientation and Overview'. To add to your basket don't click 'continue shopping', as that will take you to the publisher's full site, but use the 'back-arrow' as that will take you back to our 'spotlight' page.
To order a half or full set at an even greater DISCOUNT (33.3% on full set—available only for a short time) click on one of the buttons below.
- 'A half-set' contains the 17 books of most relevance to either pre- or post-1750 dance. 'The first half set' contains the 'Orientation and Overview' book plus the 15 books in Volume I, II, III, IV and V plus Companion 1: 1400-1750. 'The second half set' contains the 'Orientation and Overview' book plus the 15 books in Volume VI, VII, VIII, IX and X plus Companion 2: 1750-1900. The price has been reduced to AUD$550 inclusive of postage (unless your destination is substantially more expensive than most or unless you require tracked or express post, in which case we will advise you of options before proceeding). This represents a saving of about AUD$85 or AUD$5 a book.
- 'The full set' contains all 33 books, covering dance from 1400 to 1900. The price has been reduced to AUD$900 with postage included (unless your destination is substantially more expensive than most or unless you require tracked or express post, in which case we will advise you of options before proceeding). This represents a saving of about AUD$360 or about AUD$11 a book. Because of the interconnectivity of dance over the 500 years covered by this series, the cross-referencing between books in the series, the fact that you and/or friends are bound to find all the books of interest, and the close-to-cost price being offered, I highly recommend you order a full set!
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Book 1 = Book 2, 3 & 4 = Volume I: 1400-1550 Dance and dances in Europe in the 15th and early 16th century, the early renaissance. Book 5, 6 & 7 = Volume II: 1550-1600 Dance and dances in Europe in the late 16th century, the high renaissance, Elizabethan period. Book 8, 9 & 10 = Volume III: 1600-1650 Dance and dances in Europe in the early 17th century, the late renaissance, early Stuart, early baroque, cavalier period. Book 11, 12 & 13 = Volume IV: 1650-1700 Dance and dances in Europe in the late 17th century, the baroque, restoration, Charles II, Louis XIV, early Versailles period. Book 14, 15 & 16 = Volume V: 1700-1750 Dance and dances in Europe and the New World in the early 18th century, the late baroque, early rococo, middle Versailles period. Book 17, 18 & 19 = Volume VI: 1750-1800 Dance and dances in Europe and the New World in the late 18th century, mid-Georgian, late rococo, Age of Enlightenment period. Book 20, 21 & 22 = Volume VII: 1800-1825 Dance and dances in Europe and the New World in the first quarter of the 19th century, the Napoleonic, Jane Austen, Regency period. Book 23, 24 & 25 = Volume VIII: 1825-1850 Dance and dances in Europe and the New World in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, the early-Victorian, Biedermeier period. Book 26, 27 & 28 = Volume IX: 1850-1875 Dance and dance in Europe and the New World in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, the mid-Victorian, Second Empire, period. Dance and dance in Europe and the New World in the last quarter of the 19th century, the late-Victorian, Belle Époche period.
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