 Part 1 (Dance context) explores the social, political and geographic contexts in which dance and the institution of the ball was evolving. Part 2 (Dance forms) examines the nature and evolution of the period’s main types of dance. Part 3 (Dance Technicalities) has in-depth sections on ‘Style’, ‘Etiquette’, ‘Honours’, ‘Holds’, ‘Formations’, ‘Figures’ and ‘Steps’. Part 5 (Dancing Masters) is devoted to developments in dance teaching, notation and publication, and offers an annotated bibliography of primary sources. Part 4 (Dances in Detail) offers reconstructions, music and source comparisons for the following dances of the period: Adonis; Allemande (3) & (4); Allemande du Devin de Village; Allemand Suisse; Always Drunk and Never Sober (2); Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (1); Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (2); Anglaise de la Reine (1); Anglaise de la Reine (2); Anglaise de la Rhein (3)& (4); Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (2)&(3); Barley Mow; La Baroque; The Baulk (2); La Belle Alliance; Les Belles Filles de Norwich; Bevis Mount; La Bionni; The Bishop; The Black Dance (1); Bonny Lass of our Town; La Bouquette; The Changing; La Chasse d’Amour; Cockney’s Frolic; La Cométe; The Comical Fellow; Contradanza I; Contradanza II; Contradanza XXXVIII;The Cossack Dance; Douze; The Dusky Night; The Fair Maid of the Inn;The Fandango; Feldenstein's No.4, No. 5 & No. 6; Fête Champêtre; La Folie ou le Goût du Siècle; La Fricassée (1)& (2); La Fuiarde; Galopade (1); The Happy Captive; Le Jardin Enchanté; La Jesuite, or, the Jesuit; Le Jeu des quatres coins; Les Jolis Garçons; Lasses of Portsmouth; Leather Lake House3; Linnen Hall; The Macaroni; La Maison du Bois; La Méditation des Chinois; Menuet de la cour (1); La Mignonette; Minuet (2); Money Musk (1); La Musette; Mutual Love; Les Ombres Chinois; Le Palais de l’amour; Les Plaisirs de la Jeunesse; Pleasures of the Town (1a&b); Polonaise (1) / The Polish dance; Polonaise (2) / Neu Figurirte Polonoise; La Pouvoir de la Beauté; Der Prager-Student / The Student of Prague; Le Prince de Galles; The Princess of Wales’s Waltz; The Prussian Camp; Le Quadrille; Les Quadrilles; Les Quatre Berceaux; Les Quatre Nymphes (1); Les Quatre Nymphes (2); Les Quatre Saisons; The Rakes of Rochester; Rigadoon (3) / Rigodon; La Riswic; Ruffs and Rhees; The Savage Dance; Schmiedt’s Angloise No.1; Schmiedt’s Quadrille No.1; Scotch Lilt; A School for Scandal; Shrewsbury Lasses; Soldiers’ Joy (1); La Strasbourgeoise (1) & (2); Sun Assembly; The Touchstone; A Trip to Highgate; La Voltaire et la Franklein; Wakefield Hunt; Waltz (on a fan); Wednesday Night; The Wish; The Young Widow.
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