Part 1 ~ Dance Context ~ 44 pages

~ England ~  4
~ The private ball according to Jane Austen ~  6
~ Assembly room dancing ~  10
~ Public balls according to Thomas Wilson ~  17
~ Dancing in Jane Austen screen adaptations ~  24

~ Denmark to Slovenia ~  28
~ Congress of Vienna ~  30

~ France ~  32

~ America ~  35

~ Australia ~  40

~ Poland and Russia ~  43

Part 2 ~ Dance Forms ~ 58 pages

~ Allemande ~  4

~ The Country Dance ~  6
~ Variety ~  6
~ Its mechanism ~  8
~ Its setting to music ~  10
~ Its decline ~  12

~ Écossaise ~  14

~ The Finishing dances ~  17

~ Gavotte ~  19

~ The Mazurka ~  20

~ The Minuet ~  23
~ The Polonaise ~  27
~ In Poland ~  27
~ In Russia ~  28
~ To the West ~  30

~ The Quadrille ~  32
~ Its origins and first devotees ~  32
~ Its form ~  33
~ Its stepping ~  36
~ Its debut in England and Scotland ~  38
~ Its diversification ~  40
~ Quadrillemania ~  42

~ The Scotch Reel ~  48

~ The Waltz ~  50
~ Arrival in England ~  53
~ Arrival in America ~  57
~ Arrival in Australia ~  58

Part 3 ~ Dance Technicalities ~ 162 pages

~ Style ~  4
~ Deportment ~  4
~ Management of arms and hands ~  6
~ A new naturalism ~  7
~ Knowing appropriate steps ~  7
~ Shunning exhibitionism ~  8
~ The reality of the ballroom ~  10

~ Etiquette ~  13

~ Honours ~  18
~ The bow and courtesy ~  18
~ Honours in quadrilles ~  19
~ Putting on and taking off the hat ~  20

~ Holds and positions ~  21
~ Turn out ~  21
~ Five positions ~  22
~ Standing ~  25
~ Carriage of the arms ~  25
~ Couples dance arm holds ~  27

~ Formations ~  28
~ Couples ~  28
~ Triple minor longways set ~  28
~ The Quadrille ~  34
~ The Ecossaise ~  34

~ Figures ~  35
~ In the Quadrille ~  36
~ In the Country Dance ~  42
~ In the Écossaise ~  45
~ À Droite et à Gauche / Chassez-dechassez ~  48
~ À Droite sur les Côtes ~  51
~ Allemande ~  52
~ En Avant et en Arrière ~  53
~ Back to Back / Dos à Dos ~  53
~ Back / Retreat and Advance ~  54
~ Balancé ~  54
~ Cast off ~  54
~ Chaîne Anglaise ~  58
~ Chaine ~  58
~ Chaînes des Dames ~  60
~ Change / Change over ~  60
~ Change sides ~  61
~ Change Places ~  61
~ Chase ~  61
~ Chassé Crois(s)é ~  62
~ Chassé out / Chassé ouvert ~  66
~ Contra corners / Turn corners / Swing corners ~  67
~ Crossing Over / Traverser ~  71
~ Dechassé ~  77
~ Demi Promenade ~  77
~ Dos-à-dos ~  77
~ En Avant et en Arrière ~  77
~ En Avant les Huits ~  78
~ Figure / Figure of eight ~  78
~ Forward and Back / En Avant et en Arrière ~  81
~ Forward all Eight / En Avant les Huit ~  84
~ Gypsy~  85
~ Half Promenade / Queue de chat ~  85
~ Hands across / Moulinet ~  85
~ Hands round ~  86
~ Hands three / Rond de Trois ~  86
~ Hands four / hands four round / circle ~  88
~ Hands six / circle ~  88
~ Hey ~  89
~ Ladies’ Chain / Chaîne des Dames ~  89
~ Lead around ~  91
~ Lead down and back ~  91
~ Lead outside ~  96
~ Lines / Les Lignes ~  97
~ Moulinet (Le) ~  98
~ Petit tour ~  98
~ Pirouette ~  98
~ Poussette ~  98
~ Promenade / La promenade ~  99
~ Right and Left / Chaîne Anglaise ~  102
~ Set / Setting / Balancer ~  107
~ Set and change places ~  114
~ Set and change sides ~  114
~ Set contrary corners ~  115
~ Set Four in line / Balancez Quatre En Ligne ~  115
~ Set three in place and three across ~  116
~ Swing ~  117
~ Swing corners~  117
~ Swing round~  118
~ Tour de Mains ~  118
~ Tour sur place ~  118
~ Traversez ~  118
~ Le Tiroir ~  118
~ Turn with both hands / Tour de Mains ~  118
~ To the Right and to the Left ~  121
~ To the Sides / À Droite sur les Côtes ~  121
~ Traverser ~  121
~ Turn corners ~  121
~ Turn right hand / Turn left hand / La Main / Swing ~  121

~ Steps ~  124
~ Country Dance Steps ~  128
~ Quadrille Steps ~  132
~ Assemblé ~  133
~ Balancé ~  134
~ Ballonné ~  134
~ Balloté ~  135
~ Battement ~  135
~ Bending / Plié ~  136
~ Bourrée ~  137
~ Change of the Feet / Changement de Jambe ~  138
~ Chassé ~  140
~ Contretems / Contretemps ~  143
~ Coupé ~  143
~ Entrechat ~  144
~ Eschappé / Flic Flac / Fosgladh~  145
~ Flic Flac / Fosgladh ~  146
~ Glissade ~  146
~ Jeté ~  148
~ Kemkossy~  152
~ Kemshoole ~  152
~ Minuet (Pas de) ~  153
~ Pas de basque ~  153
~ Pirouette ~  155
~ Rond de Jambe ~  155
~ Seby-trast ~  156
~ Sissone ~  156
~ Tem(p)s Levé ~  159
~ Temps de Courante ~  160
~ Zephyr (Pas de) ~  161
~ Walking / Pas marché ~  161

Part 4 ~ Dances in Detail ~ 330 pages

~ The Alexander ~  4
~ Allemande (3) / Strassburger ~  6
~ The Battle of Leipzig ~  17
~ La Boulangère (1) ~  19
~ Butter’d Pease (2) ~  22
~ The Caledonian Quadrille ~  24
~ The Chase (1) ~  46
~ Congo Minuet ~  48
~ Countess of Yarmouth’s Fancy ~  53
~ The Cushion Dance (2) ~  56
~ The Czar ~  61
~ Downfall of Paris ~  63
~ The Duke of Kent’s Waltz ~  68
~ Dutch Dollars ~  72
~ Elegance and Simplicity ~  74
~ The Fair Circassian ~  75
~ The Fairy Dance ~  77
~ The Good Girl ~  79
~ Haste to the Wedding ~  83
~ Italian Monfrina (1) ~  87
~ Italian Monfrina (2) ~  89
~ La Josephine ~  91
~ Juliana (1) ~  93
~ Juliana (2) ~  95
~ Lady Caroline Lee’s Waltz ~  99
~ The Lancer’s Quadrille (1) / The Strathy Lancers ~  102
~ The Lancers’ Quadrille (2) / The Duval Lancers ~  111
~ The Lancer’s Quadrille (3) / The Hart Lancers ~  143
~ Money Musk (2) ~  163
~ Morgiana in Ireland (1a, b, c) ~  165
~ Morgiana in Ireland (2) ~  168
~ Mr Turner’s Academy Cotillion ~  174
~ La Napoléon ~  178
~ Nichol’s Favourite ~  181
~ The Perigodine ~  183
~ Pleasures of the Town (2) ~  187
~ Polonaise (3) / The Polonese Russe ~  190
~ Quadrille Français (1) ~  193
~ Quadrille Français (2) / Paine’s 1st Set~  207
~ Russian Dance (1) ~  241
~ Russian Dance (2) ~  244
~ Scotch Reel (1) / Reel of 3 & Reel of 4 ~  246
~ Scotch Reel (2) / Reel of 5 ~  259
~ Scotch Reel (3) / Reel of 6 ~ 
~ Sir Roger de Coverley (2) ~  269
~ La Tempete (1) ~.277
~ The Triumph (1) ~  280
~ The Triumph (2) ~.285
~ The Union Waltz ~  290
~ La Vinetta ~  292
~ The Volga ~  294
~ Waltz (1) / French Waltzing ~  292
~ Waltz (2) / German Waltzing ~  314
~ Wilson’s Quadrilles ~  323

Part 5 ~ Dancing Masters ~ 44 pages

~ The Profession ~  3
~ The importance of dance classes ~  3
~ The changing repertoire ~  6
~ The teachers of dubious quality ~  7
~ The teachers of quality ~  11

~ Calling ~  15

~ Publication and Notation ~  17
~ Publication ~  17
~ Notation ~  17
~ Dance note book ~  19

~ Lives and Works ~  25
~ Anonymous ~  25
~ Becker ~  28
~ Blanchard ~  29
~ Blasis ~  29
~ Cassidy ~  29
~ Charpentier ~  30
~ Clarchies ~  30
~ Dun ~  30
~ Duval ~  31
~ Gourdoux-Daux ~  31
~ Hart ~  32
~ Lund ~  32
~ Moreau de Saint-Méry ~  33
~ Nichols ~  33
~ Noke ~  34
~ Paine ~  34
~ Peacock ~  37
~ Rice ~  37
~ Rosenhain ~  37
~ Saltator ~  38
~ Schaffer ~  38
~ Simonet ~  38
~ Stender ~  39
~ Strathy ~  39
~ Théleur ~  39
~ Thompson ~  40
~ Voiart ~  40
~ Wilson ~  41