Each of the ten 'Volumes' in Dr John Gardiner-Garden's 2018 Dancing through the Ages series consists of three books. Each book is A4 size (i.e. 29x21 centimetres or 8.2x11.6 inches) and contains between 240 and 440 pages (most around 340). Each collection of three books contain (on average) 1,000 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.
Below are the covers and contents of the three books that constitute Volume I in the series. The numbers represent the page on which the section or subsection start. The total number of pages in the book is usually a few pages more than the last page number mentioned.
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N.B. I recommend that in addition to books pertaining to the period you first think of, you also order books from the adjacent period collections and Book 1: 'Orientation and Overview' (286 pages). 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!
Part 1: Dance in general (Book 11) PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 7 England ~ 9 Dance under the republic ~ 9 Dances with links to the Stuart Masque ~ 11 Bargrave’s masque in Constantinople ~ 13 Dances with links to mid-17th century plays ~ 14 Dances with links to aristrocats ~ 17 Dances with continental links ~ 17 The Inns of Court ~ 18 The Restoration and the new French Influence ~ 19 Dances with links to late-17th century plays ~ 24 Dances in late-17th century opera ~ 25 Different sorts of dances in different milieus ~ 29 France ~ 32 A new style ~ 32 The Masquerade ~ 35 The formal Versailles ball according to Rameau ~ 36 The formal Versailles ball according to contemporaries ~ 40 Balls in the Versailles garden’s salle du bal. ~ 43 Other balls at Versailles ~ 46 Balls in Paris ~ 47 The function of a ball ~ 47 The importation of the English Country Dance ~ 48 Elsewhere ~ 53 Italy ~ 53 Central Europe ~ 55 Poland ~ 55 Germany ~ 58 Holland ~ 59 Scotland and Ireland ~ 63 Sweden ~ 63 America ~ 64 Spain ~ 64 PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 66 The Allemande ~ 67 The Bourrée ~ 68 The Country dance ~ 69 Forms and mechanisms in the 1650s & 60s ~ 69 New propensities after 1675 and Lorin manuscripts of the 1680s ~ 71 Lorin on the contredance à deux ~ 77 Lorin on the contredance à quatre ~ 78 Lorin on the contredance à six ~ 79 Lorin on doubling up a contredanse ~ 80 Lorin on contredances for fixed numbers ~ 82 Lorin on contradance medleys ~ 83 Lorin on contradance introductions ~ 85 Lorin’s dances in summary ~ 85 William Jones and the ‘Parties of six’ ~ 87 Improper contradances ~ 90 The Courant ~ 91 Its importance ~ 91 Its evolution ~ 94 Wycherley’s and Pasch’s Courants ~ 96 The Minuet ~ 103 Origin ~ 103 The spread of the Minuet ~ 106 Pavan ~ 107 The Polish Dance ~ 108 The ‘relay mixer’ ~ 109 Other dance forms ~ 111 The Branle ~ 111 The Rigaudon ~ 111 The Hornpipe ~ 111 The Jig ~ 112 The Masquerade ~ 113 The Sarabande ~ 114 PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 116 Style ~ 117 Etiquette ~ 119 Etiquette according to Phillips ~ 119 Etiquette according to de Courtin ~ 120 Etiquette according to Rameau ~ 122 Kissing ~ 124 The Bow ~ 125 The honours that open and close a dance ~ 126 Formations ~ 132 Couple facing couple ~ 132 3-facing-3 ~ 132 Rounds ~ 132 Squares ~ 133 Couples on the periphery of dance space ~ 133 3-couple longways ~ 133 4 couple longways ~ 134 Non-progressive longways for as many as will ~ 134 Progressive longways for as many as will ~ 134 Other formations ~ 135 Figures ~ 136 Tendencies and propensities ~ 136 Arches ~ 138 Arming ~ 138 Back-to-back ~ 138 Back Ring ~ 139 Cast (off) ~ 139 Chain / Bootlace ~ 139 Change (places) ~ 140 Circle ~ 141 Clapping ~ 141 Cross ~ 142 Fall back / Back ~ 142 Figure ~ 143 Gesture ~ 143 Go below ~ 144 Go about […] not turning your faces ~ 144 Go round about ~ 145 Gypsy ~ 145 Hands across ~ 145 Hands round ~ 145 Hey ~ 146 Kiss ~ 148 Lead ~ 148 Lead / slip down ~ 149 Lead up a double ~ 150 Meet ~ 150 Open and close ~ 150 Poussette ~ 151 Right and left ~ 152 Set ~ 152 Set with elbow & foot / side with foot & elbow ~ 153 Sides / Siding ~ 154 Turn ~ 155 Turn back to back ~ 155 Turn off ~ 156 Turn single ~ 156 Up a double ~ 157 Weave ~ 157 Steps ~ 158 Simplicity in country dancing stepping ~ 158 Variety in country dancing stepping ~ 158 Contradance stepping in 3/2 ~ 162 Steps in the Spanish Pabana ~ 164 Assemblé ~ 164 Balancé ~ 165 Bazio / Vacío ~ 165 Bourrée à deux mouvements (pas de) ~ 165 Cabriole / Cabriola ~ 166 Campanella ~ 167 Cargado ~ 168 Carrerilla ~ 169 Chassé ~ 169 Coupé ~ 170 Courante (pas de)170 Courante (temps de) ~ 170 Cruzado ~ 170 Degagé ~ 171 Double ~ 171 Encaje ~ 171 Fleuret / Floreo / Floreta ~ 172 Jetté ~ 173 Llamada ~ 173 Menuet (pas de) ~ 173 Paso ~ 174 Quatropeado ~ 174 Rompido ~ 175 Sacudido ~ 175 Saute / Sauté ~ 176 Simple / Single ~ 176 Sissone (pas de) ~ 177 Slip ~ 177 Tourné (Pas) ~ 178 PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 179 Dance as a study ~ 180 The Vocation ~ 182 Wycherley’s play ~ 187 Publications ~ 198 John Playford’s 1651 English Dancing master ~ 198 Subsequent Dancing master editions ~ 201 Other English dance manuals and publications ~ 201 Notation ~ 203 Playford’s system ~ 203 The search for a new system ~ 205 Lorin’s system(s) ~ 204 Favier’s system ~ 208 De la Haise’s system ~ 210 Beauchamp’s system ~ 210 Calling ~ 212 Anonymous works ~ 214 The Inns of Court manuscripts ~ 214 The Sloane manuscript ~ 214 Steps for country dancing manuscript ~ 215 BL Add. MS 41996 fol.18 ~ 216 Authors and their works ~ 216 Bargrave ~ 216 Beauchamp ~ 216 Bray ~ 216 Jaque ~ 217 Lorin ~ 218 Menestrier ~ 219 Pasch ~ 219 Playford ~ 220 Selden ~ 222 Wycherley ~ 222 | 
Part 2a: Dances in detail A-L (Book 12) Adson’s Saraband ~ 6 All in the Garden green ~ 10 Amaryllis ~ 13 Anna Maria ~ 17 Arcadia ~ 19 Argeers ~ 21 Aye me, or the Simphony ~ 25 Bartlett House ~ 27 The Bath ~ 29 The Begger Boy ~ 31 Bellamira / The Baulk (1) ~ 34 Black Bess ~ 38 Black Jack ~ 41 Black Nag ~ 45 Boat-man ~ 47 Bobbing Joe (2) ~ 50 Bonny grey-Ey’d morn ~ 54 The Bore, or Sweet William ~ 56 Braye’s Magott ~ 58 Broome ~ 60 Catching of Quails ~ 63 Cheerily and Merrily ~ 66 Chestnut ~ 69 The Chirping of the Nightingale (2) ~ 72 Christchurch Bells (1) ~ 75 Christchurch Bells (2) ~ 80 Cobbler’s Jig ~ 94 Cold and Raw ~ 98 Confesse ~ 100 Contredance nouvelle figurée à huit ~ 104 Courant (3) & (4) ~ 113 The Country Coll ~ 158 Cuckolds all a Row (2) ~ 161 Cupid Garden ~ 164 The Cushion Dance (1) ~ 169 Daniel Cowper (1) ~ 173 Daphne ~ 176 Dargason ~ 180 De’il take the Wars (1) ~ 185 Drive the Cold Winter Away ~ 187 The Duke of Gloucester’s March ~ 190 Easter Tuesday ~ 193 Emperor of the Moon ~ 194 Epping Forrest ~ 200 Excuse me ~ 202 Fain I would ~ 210 The Fine Companion ~ 213 Gathering Peascods ~ 216 The Geud Man of Ballangigh ~ 218 The Glory of the West ~ 220 Graies Inne Maske (2) ~ 224 Greenwood (2) ~ 227 Grimstock ~ 231 The Gun Fleet (1) & (2) ~ 233 Half Hannykin ~ 237 Have at thy coat old woman ~ 239 The Health ~ 242 Hearts-ease (2) ~ 245 Hedge Lane (1a&b, 2a&b) ~ 248 Hide Parke ~ 255 Hobb’s Wedding ~ 257 Hockley in the Hole ~ 260 The Hole in the Wall ~ 263 If all the World were Paper ~ 265 The Irish Trot ~ 267 Jack a Lent ~ 272 Jack’s Maggot ~ 275 Jacob Hall’s Jig ~ 276 Jamaica / La bonne amitié ~ 278 Jenny plucked Pears ~ 282 Joan’s Placket (1) / Jeanne qui saute ~ 284 Jog on (2) ~ 288 The Jovial Beggars ~ 292 Juice of Barley ~ 294 Kemp’s Jig ~ 296 The Kettle Drum ~ 300 King of Poland ~ 303 The Last of Twenty ~ 306 Lavena ~ 309 Lilli Burlero (1) ~ 312 The London Gentlewoman ~ 314 Lord of Carnavan’s Jig ~ 321 Love and a Bottle (1) ~ 324 The Lover’s Luck ~ 327 Lulle me beyond thee ~ 330 | 
Part 2b: Dances in detail M-Z (Book 13) Mad Robin (1) ~ 6 Mage on a Cree ~ 9 Maiden Lane ~ 12 The Maid in the Mill ~ 15 Maid in the Moon ~ 17 The Masque of the Seasons ~ 20 The Maurice Daunce ~ 36 Menuet Anglois / Mr Lane’s Minuet ~ 40 The Milking Payle / Merry Milkmaids (2) ~ 44 The Mill-field ~ 47 Millison’s Jig ~ 50 Mr Beveridge’s Maggot ~ 53 Mr Eaglesfield’s new Hornpipe ~ 55 Mr Isaac’s Maggot ~ 57 Mr Lane’s Magot ~ 65 Mr Lane’s Trumpet Minuet ~ 70 Mr Young’s Delight ~ 75 The Mulberry-Garden (1) & (2) ~ 78 Mundesse ~ 82 My Lady Cullen’s ~ 87 The New Bath ~ 90 New Boe Peep ~ 94 Newcastle ~ 96 The New Exchange ~ 102 New Rigadoon ~ 105 New Roger / Young Roger ~ 107 The Nightpiece ~ 113 Nobody’s Jig ~ 117 Nonesuch / A la Mode de France ~ 119 Old Simon the King ~ 125 Pabana / Spanish Pavan (2) ~ 128 Parson’s Farewell ~ 139 Parson upon Dorothy (1) / The Shepherd’s Daughter ~ 144 Parson upon Dorothy (2) ~ 148 Paul’s Steeple ~ 151 Peppers Black ~ 156 Prince George ~ 160 Prince Rupert’s March ~ 165 Punk’s Delight ~ 168 Put on thy Smock on a Monday ~ 171 Putney Ferry ~ 173 Red House (1) & (2) ~ 176 Rigadoon (1) ~ 180 Row Well ye Mariners ~ 183 Rufty Tufty ~ 189 Sage Leaf ~ 192 Saint Martin ~ 195 St. Martin’s Lane ~ 199 Saraband ~ 202 Scotch Cap ~ 206 The Scotch Measure ~ 209 Sellengers Round ~ 211 Shepheard’s Holiday ~ 215 Short and Sweet ~ 218 Short’s Garden ~ 220 The Siege of Limerick ~ 222 The Slip ~ 224 Spanish Jig (1) & (2) ~ 227 Spanish Gypsie / The Gypsies (2) ~ 229 The Spring ~ 232 Staines Morris ~ 234 Step Stately ~ 238 The Stingo, or the Oyl of Barley ~ 241 Strawberries and Cream (1) ~ 245 Sweet Kate ~ 248 Ten Pound Lass (2) ~ 250 The 29th of May ~ 253 Tythe Pig ~ 256 Under and Over / Over and Under ~ 258 Upon a Summers Day ~ 262 Valentine’s Day ~ 264 Vienna (1) ~ 272 Vienna (2) ~ 274 Well Hall ~ 278 What you please ~ 280 The Whirligig ~ 283 Whitehall ~ 286 Windsor Castle ~ 290 Woodicock ~ 293 |
