Dancing through the Ages 1750-1800-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 V 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 17)

PART 1a:    DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8

France ~ 10

Balls at Versailles ~ 10

Opera Balls ~ 11

Other Public Balls ~ 14

Developments on stage ~ 15

Dancing during the Terror ~ 16

England ~ 19

The importance of dance ~ 19

The Private Ball ~ 22

The Assemblies ~ 23

Garden settings ~ 28

On Stage ~ 29

At Court ~ 30

The dancing master’s ball ~ 31

Scotland & Wales ~ 32

Scotland ~ 32

Wales ~ 34

Italy ~ 37

Dance in the 1787 opera Don Giovanni ~ 37

Dance in Magri’s 1779 Trattato ~ 38

Dance in illustrations ~ 40

Germany, Austria and Hungary ~ 43

The repertoire mix ~ 43

The ‘Englischer’ ~ 44

The ‘Deutscher’ ~ 45

The torch dance ~ 46

Poland and Russia ~ 48

Russia ~ 50

America ~ 52

Before the war ~ 52

During the war ~ 55

After the war ~ 60

In the 1790s ~ 67

PART 1b:    DANCE FORMS ~ 70

Allemande ~ 72

Origins ~ 72

The couples dance ~ 73

Cautions ~ 77

In cotillions and country dances ~ 78

Contradanse anglaise / Country dance ~ 79

Its popularity ~ 79

Its shape and mechanics ~ 81

Its extemporisation ~ 85

Its composition ~ 87

Its management ~ 88

Blessmann on the English Dance ~ 92

The Ecossaise on the horizon ~ 96

Cotillion / Contredanse français ~ 97

Its origin ~ 97

Its formation ~ 98

Its mechanics ~ 99

The change figures ~ 102

Its popularity and spread ~ 105

Variants on the contredanse à huit ~ 109

The Douze and contredanse à 16 ~ 110

The Minuet ~ 112

Its importance ~ 112

Continuing step and figures ~ 115

New phrasing, tempo and formation ~ 117

Its teaching ~ 118

The figured minuets ~ 119

The advent of the Menuet de la cour ~ 121

The Polonaise ~ 122

From 1750-1770 ~ 122

From 1770-1790 ~ 123

The Polska ~ 127

The Quadrille ~ 131

The Reel ~ 132

The Waltz ~ 134

Other dances ~ 136

The French dances ~ 136

The Hornpipe ~ 137

The Jig ~ 139

PART 1c:    DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 141

Style ~ 142

Graceful disposition ~ 142

Countenance ~ 143

Equilibrium ~ 144

Timing ~ 144

The bend, rise and lower ~ 145

Degagé ~ 146

Walking ~ 146

For Country Dances ~ 146

For Cotillions ~ 147

Arms ~ 148

Etiquette ~ 150

Francis Burney’s Evelina ~ 151

Dress ~ 156

Honours ~ 157

Upon entering a room ~ 157

Honours during a dance—the stationary bow ~ 158

Honours in passing ~ 158

Taking a seat ~ 160

Upon leaving a room ~ 160

Holds and Positions ~ 161

Foot Positions ~ 161

Turn-out ~ 161

Allemande arm holds ~ 162

Country dance arm holds ~ 164

Figures in general ~ 167

Country dancing ~ 167

Cotillions ~ 168

Figure glossary ~ 169

À la Droite / Chassez à la droite ~ 169

Allemande ~ 169

Aller figurer devant un couple ~ 171

Avant Deux ~ 171

Back to back / Dos à Dos ~ 171

Balance / Balancé ~ 172

Baulking ~ 172

Cast ~ 173

Cerceau brisé ~ 178

Chaîne Anglaise ~ 178

Chaîne des Dames / Petite Chaîne ~ 178

Change / Change over ~ 179

Chassé ~ 180

Circle ~ 182

Cross of Malta ~ 182

Cross over ~ 182

Dos à Dos ~ 185

Down and back ~ 185

Draw ~ 188

En Avant ~ 188

Figure of Eight ~ 188

Foot Abreast ~ 192

Foot across and turn ~ 193

Forward and back / Avant Deux / En Avant ~ 193

Grande Carré / Grand Square ~ 194

Grand Chain / Chaine ~ 194

Grand Square / Grande Carré ~ 194

Half-moon / Horseshoe ~ 195

Hands across / Moulinet ~ 196

Hands round / circle ~ 198

Hey ~ 200

Hunt / Chase ~ 201

Lady’s chain ~ 202

Lead ~ 202

Lead Outside ~ 203

Lead to the walls ~ 205

Line / Muraille / die Mauer ~ 205

The Lovers Knot ~ 206

La Main ~ 206

Les Mains ~ 206

Moulinet ~ 206

Passes ~ 207

Les Petites chaînes ~ 207

Pirouette ~ 207

Poussette / Draw ~ 208

Promenade ~ 209

Queue du Chat (La) ~ 211

Right and Left / Chaîne Anglaise ~ 211

La Rond / Circle ~ 214

Set and Turn ~ 215

Set to corners ~ 216

Shift partners ~ 217

Snail ~ 217

Square ~ 218

Sur les Côtes ~ 218

Turn / Les Main ~ 219

Turn / swing / chain corners ~ 220

Turn right hand / Turn left hand / La Main ~ 221

Turn single ~ 222

Waltzing in a set ~ 222

Weaves / Enchainement ~ 223

Steps in general ~ 226

Step choice ~ 226

Step quality ~ 227

Step timing ~ 228

Steps in country dancing ~ 229

Pauli 1756 and Winterschmid 1758 ~ 229

Lange 1763 ~ 230

Petersen 1768 ~ 231

Feldtenstein 1772 ~ 232

‘Von einem Böhmen’ 1777 ~ 234

Magri 1779 ~ 238

Petersen 1791 ~ 240

Steps used in Cotillions ~ 241

Step glossary ~ 243

Allemande (Pas de) ~ 243

Assemblé ~ 243

Balancé ~ 245

Balleto Fermo ~ 246

Ballonné (Pas) ~ 246

Balloté ~ 247

Basque (Pas de) ~ 247

Bourrée (Pas de) / Fleuret ~ 248

Brisé (Pas) ~ 251

Changement de Jambe ~ 252

Chassé ~ 252

Contretemps de gavotte ~ 254

Contretemps de minuet ~ 256

Coupé ~ 256

Demi-Contretemps ~ 257

Demi-coupé ~ 257

Demi-jeté ~ 258

Écossois (Pas) ~ 258

Echappé (Pas) ~ 258

Fleuret ~ 259

Footing ~ 259

Fouetté ~ 259

Flinc, Flanc ~ 260

Galop / Gallop ~ 260

Glissade ~ 261

Jeté ~ 262

Marcel (Pas de) ~ 263

Marché (Pas) ~ 263

Minuet steps in general ~ 264

Minuet—3 movements, hemiolic with leap ~ 266

Minuet—3 movements, hemiolic without leap ~ 266

Minuet—3 movements, non-hemiolic no leap ~ 267

Minuet—2 movements, hemiolic without leap ~ 270

Minuet—2 or 3 movements, non-hemiolic ~ 272

Minuet—other variants, Pas de Marcel ~ 275

Pas Angloise / Footing ~ 277

Pas Écossaise ~ 278

Pas grave / Passo grave / Tems de courante ~ 279

Pirouette ~ 279

Quatre Pas ~ 281

Rigaudon / Rigadoon ~ 281

Set ~ 283

Sissone ~ 283

Tems (Temps) Levé ~ 284

Zephyr (Pas de) ~ 284

PART 1d:    DANCE TEACHING ~ 285

The necessity of lessons ~ 286

Good and bad teaching ~ 291

Bad teaching ~ 291

Good teaching ~ 293

The Vocation ~ 298

In England and Ireland ~ 298

In Scotland ~ 299

In America ~ 301

Publications ~ 307

Notations systems ~ 310

Feuillet cut-down system ~ 310

De la Cuisse’s system ~ 315

Magri’s system ~ 323

Bacquoy-Guédon’s system ~ 324

Guillaume and Dubois’ system ~ 325

Directing figures ~ 326

Choosing figures ~ 326

Calling figures ~ 328

Anonymous and collected works ~ 330

Anonymous manuscripts ~ 330

Anonymous printed books ~ 331

Dance sections inside other works ~ 331

Collections from London ~ 332

Authors and their works ~ 334

A.D. ~ 334

Bacquoy-Guédon ~ 334

Becker ~ 335

Bishop ~ 336

Bleßmann ~ 336

Brives ~ 336

Budd ~ 337

Cahusac ~ 337

Campbell ~ 338

Chesterfield ~ 339

Compan ~ 339

D’Auternaux ~ 340

De La Cuisse ~ 340

Dubois ~ 341

Dukes ~ 342

Feldtenstein ~ 342

Fishar ~ 342

Fraisier ~ 342

Friske ~ 343

Gallini ~ 343

Gardiner ~ 344

Gautier ~ 345

Gherardi ~ 345

Griffiths ~ 346

Guillaume ~ 346

Guillemin ~ 347

Hänsel ~ 347

Iza Zamácola ~ 348

Jones ~ 348

Landrin ~ 348

Lange ~ 349

Laurent ~ 350

Link ~ 350

Old Master of Ceremonies ~ 350

Magny ~ 351

Magri ~ 351

Malpied ~ 352

Markordt ~ 353

Marset ~ 353

Minguet é Irol ~ 354

Pantezze ~ 354

Petersen ~ 354

Sancho ~ 355

Schmiedt ~ 356

Thompson ~ 356

Weis ~ 358

Werner ~ 358

Willcox ~ 359

Willsim ~ 359

Winterschmid ~ 359

Part 2a: Dances in detail A-Ma   (Book 18)

Adonis ~ 6

Ah Ça Ira (1) ~ 16

Allemande (3) ~ 19

Allemande (4) ~ 29

Allemande à trois ~ 45

Allemande du Devin de Village ~ 57

Allemande Suisse ~ 61

Always Drunk and Never Sober (2) ~ 65

Aly Grogan & Round O ~ 68

Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (1) ~ 75

Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (2) ~ 77

Anglaise de la Reine (1) ~ 79

Anglaise de la Reine (2) ~ 81

Anglaise de la Rhein (3) ~ 84

Anglaise de la Reine (4) ~ 86

Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (1) ~ 88

Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (2) ~ 90

Barley Mow ~ 92

La Baroque ~ 94

La Belle Alliance ~ 96

Les Belles Filles de Norwich ~ 99

Bevis Mount ~ 102

La Bionni ~ 104

The Bishop ~ 110

The Black Dance (1) ~ 112

The Black Dance (2) ~ 114

La Bonne Amitié ~ 118

Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.1 ~ 120

Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.2 ~ 125

Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.3 ~ 128

Bonny Lass of our Town ~ 132

La Boulangère (1) ~ 134

La Bouquette ~ 139

Der Canontanz ~ 141

Carillon National ~ 147

The Changing ~ 151

La Chasse d’Amour ~ 153

Cockney’s Frolic ~ 156

La Cométe ~ 158

The Comical Fellow ~ 160

Congo Minuet ~ 162

The Cossack ~ 178

Country Bumpkin (1) ~ 181

Daniel Cowper (2a&b) / Daniel Cooper ~ 190

Douze ~ 196

The Dusky Night ~ 200

The Fair Maid of the Inn ~ 201

The Fandango ~ 202

Feldtenstein’s no. 4 ~ 204

Feldtenstein’s no. 5 ~ 206

Feldtenstein’s No. 6 ~ 208

Fête Champêtre ~ 210

La Folie ou le Goût du Siècle ~ 212

The Fourth of June ~ 218

La Fricassée (1) ~ 221

La Fricassée (2) ~ 224

Fricke’s no.1 ~ 228

La Fuiarde ~ 231

Galopade (1a & b) ~ 233

The Happy Captive ~ 240

Le Jardin Enchanté ~ 242

La Jesuite, or, the Jesuit ~ 246

Le Jeu des quatres coins ~ 250

Les Jolis Garçons ~ 253

Lasses of Portsmouth ~ 256

Leather Lake House ~ 258

Link’s Englischer Contre-Tanz no. 2 ~ 260

Link’s Englischer Contre-Tanz no. 4 ~ 262

Linnen Hall ~ 265

Lord Nelson’s Waltz ~ 267

The Macaroni ~ 269

Magri’s contradanza I ~ 271

Magri’s contradanza II ~ 273

Magri’s contradanza no. VIII ~ 276

Magri’s contradanza no. XVI ~ 278

Magri’s contradanza no. XXIX ~ 280

Magri’s contradanza XXXVIII ~ 282

La Maison du Bois ~ 291

Marset’s no.1 / The Baulk (2) ~ 293

Marset’s no.2 ~ 296

Part 2b: Dances in detail Me-Z   (Book 19)

La Méditation des Chinois ~ 6

Menuet de la cour (1) ~ 10

La Mignonette ~ 35

Minuet (2) ~ 39

Miss Bland’s Allemande ~ 75

Money Musk (1) ~ 77

La Musette ~ 81

Mutual Love ~ 83

New Christmas Eve ~ 85

New Twelfth Night ~ 89

Les Ombres Chinois ~ 94

Le Palais de l’amour ~ 97

La Perigourdine ~ 100

Petersen’s Englischer Tanz no. 5 ~ 106

Petersen’s Englischer Tanz no.9 ~ 110

Les Plaisirs de la Jeunesse ~ 112

Pleasures of the Town (1a&b) ~ 116

Polonaise (1) / The Polish dance ~ 118

Polonaise (2) / Neu Figurirte Polonoise ~ 124

La Pontlevoy ~ 129

La Pouvoir de la Beauté ~ 134

Der Prager-Student / Student of Prague ~ 137

Le Prince de Galles ~ 145

Prince of Wales’ Cotillion ~ 147

The Princess of Wales’s Waltz ~ 150

The Prussian Camp ~ 152

Le Quadrille ~ 154

Les Quadrilles ~ 160

Les Quatre Berceaux ~ 169

Les Quatre Nymphes (1) ~ 175

Les Quatre Nymphes (2) ~ 179

Les Quatre Saisons ~ 182

 La Réverbère ~ 184

Rigadoon (3) / Rigodon ~ 188

La Riswic ~ 196

Ruffs and Rhees ~ 198

The Savage Dance ~ 200

Schmiedt’s Angloise No.1 ~ 202

Schmiedt’s Quadrille No.1 ~ 204

Scotch Lilt ~ 208

A School for Scandal ~ 210

Shrewsbury Lasses ~ 212

Soldier’s Joy (1a&b) ~ 214

La Strasbourgeoise (1) ~ 216

La Strasbourgeoise (2) ~ 220

Strawberries and Cream (3) ~ 226

Sun Assembly ~ 228

The Touchstone ~ 231

Le Tourbillon ~ 232

A Trip to Highgate ~ 234

The Triumph (1a) ~ 235

La Voltaire et la Franklein ~ 238

Von einem Böhmen no.1 ~ 242

Von einem Böhmen no.2 ~ 244

Von einem Böhmen no.9 ~ 246

Wakefield Hunt ~ 250

Waltz (on a fan) ~ 252

Wednesday Night ~ 254

Wernigeröder Englischer Tanz nom. 19 ~ 255

La Windsor ~ 258

The Wish ~ 263

The Young Widow ~ 265