Dancing through the Ages 1650-1700-a

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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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