Dancing through the Ages 1800-1825-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 VII 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 20)

PART 1a:  DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8

England ~ 10

The importance of dance ~ 10

The private ball according to Jane Austen ~ 13

Assembly room dancing ~ 17

Public balls according to Thomas Wilson ~ 24

Dancing in Jane Austen screen adaptations ~ 31

Scotland ~ 34

Continental Europe ~ 37

The folk couples dances ~ 37

Group ballroom dances ~ 37

Congress of Vienna ~ 39

The Duchess of Richmond’s Ball ~ 39

In France ~ 42

Germany ~ 45

Expanding dance culture ~ 45

Changing dance repertoire ~ 46

The winter ball season ~ 49

America ~ 52

The acceptance of dance ~ 52

Regional differences ~ 54

African-American involvement with dance ~ 56

The West Indies ~ 57

Australia ~ 59

The transplanting of British Isles traditions ~ 59

A broadening repertoire ~ 60

Poland and Russia ~ 63

Poland ~ 63

Russia ~ 64

PART 1b:  DANCE FORMS ~ 67

Allemande ~ 69

Le cotillon / The cotillion dance game ~ 72

The origin ~ 72

The early 1820s ~ 75

The Country Dance ~ 78

Origin ~ 78

Variety ~ 79

Its mechanism ~ 81

Its setting to music ~ 86

Dance and tune medleys ~ 88

Its decline ~ 89

Écossaise ~ 92

Its origin ~ 92

Its popularity in Germany ~ 92

Its popularity in Russia ~ 95

Its formation and mechanism ~ 95

Its speed ~ 100

Its figures ~ 101

Its influence ~ 105

The Finishing dances ~ 107

The whole longways set ~ 107

The whole circle set ~ 108

The cotillon ~ 108

Gavotte ~ 110

The hybrid dances ~ 113

The circular system of English Country dancing ~ 113

The Spanish Dance ~ 114

The Swedish Dance ~ 117

The Mescolanze ~ 117

The Circassian Circle and Chivonian … ~ 118

The Union Dance / Quadrille country dance ~ 119

The Jig and Hornpipe ~ 121

The Jig ~ 121

The Hornpipe ~ 122

The Mazurka ~ 124

In its rural homeland ~ 124

Ivensenn ~ 125

After the Napoleonic Wars ~ 128

The Minuet ~ 129

In England ~ 129

In Scotland ~ 131

In Ireland ~ 132

In America ~ 133

In Scandinavia134

The Minuet in double time ~ 134

The Polonaise ~ 136

In Poland ~ 136

In Russia ~ 137

To the West ~ 139

The Quadrille ~ 141

Its origins and first devotees ~ 141

Its form ~ 144

Its stepping ~ 147

Its debut in England and Scotland ~ 149

Its diversification ~ 153

Quadrillemania ~ 155

The Scotch Reel ~ 159

The Waltz ~ 162

Its arrival in France ~ 162

Its arrival in England ~ 166

Its arrival in Scotland ~ 171

Its arrival in America ~ 172

Its arrival in Australia ~ 173

PART 1c:  DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 174

Style ~ 175

Deportment ~ 175

Management of arms and hands ~ 178

A new naturalism ~ 179

Knowing appropriate steps ~ 180

Shunning exhibitionism ~ 182

The reality of the ballroom ~ 185

Etiquette ~ 190

Honours ~ 196

The bow and courtesy ~ 196

Honours in country dances and quadrilles ~ 197

Putting on and taking off the hat ~ 199

Holds and positions ~ 200

Turn out ~ 200

Five positions ~ 201

Standing ~ 203

Carriage of the arms ~ 203

Couples dance arm holds ~ 206

Formations ~ 207

The Quadrille ~ 207

The longways set ~ 209

Couples ~ 214

The new ‘hybrid’ formations ~ 214

Figures in general ~ 216

In the Country Dance ~ 217

In the Quadrille ~ 219

In the Écossaise ~ 223

In Waltz Country dances ~ 226

In the Spanish Dance ~ 226

In the Mescolanzes ~ 228

In the Union danses ~ 229

Figure glossary ~ 230

Across Parallels ~ 230

À Droite et à Gauche / Chassez-dechassez ~ 230

À Droite sur les Côtes ~ 234

Allemande ~ 234

En Avant et en Arrière ~ 237

Back to Back / Dos à Dos ~ 237

Back / Retreat and Advance ~ 240

Balancé ~ 240

Cast off ~ 240

Chaîne Anglaise ~ 243

Chain / Chaîne for 8 or more ~ 243

Chain for 6 / Chaîne en six ~ 245

Chain for four (snowballed) ~ 246

Chaînes des Dames ~ 246

Change corners / Change over ~ 246

Change sides ~ 246

Change Places ~ 247

Chase ~ 247

Chassé à droite / à gauche / dechassé ~ 248

Chassé Crois(s)é ~ 248

Chassé out / Chassé ouvert ~ 252

Circle ~ 253

Contra corners ~ 253

Crossing Over 1 or 2 couples ~ 253

Dechassé ~ 256

Demi Promenade ~ 256

Down the middle ~ 256

Dos-à-dos ~ 257

En Avant et en Arrière ~ 257

En Avant les Huits ~ 257

Figure / Figure of eight ~ 257

Forward and Back / En Avant et en Arrière ~ 260

Forward all Eight / En Avant les Huit ~ 262

Grand Square ~ 263

Grand Rond / Ronde en huit ~ 263

Gypsy ~ 264

Half Promenade / Queue de chat ~ 264

Hands across / Moulinet ~ 264

Hands round / Rond ~ 265

Hands four / hands four round / circle ~ 266

Hands three / Rond de Trois ~ 266

Hands six / circle ~ 268

Hey ~ 269

Half-moon / Horseshoe ~ 269

Ladies’ Chain / Chaîne des Dames ~ 271

Lead around ~ 273

Lead down and back ~ 274

Lead outside ~ 279

Lines / Les Lignes ~ 280

Moulinet (Le) ~ 280

Petit tour ~ 280

Pirouette ~ 280

Porte d’Honneur ~ 280

Poussette ~ 281

Promenade / La promenade / Queue du chat ~ 283

Right and Left / Chaîne Anglaise ~ 286

Set / Setting / Balancer ~ 292

Set and change places ~ 299

Set and change sides / set and cross … ~ 300

Set contrary corners ~ 301

Set between two... ~ 302

Set four in line / Balancez quatre en ligne ~ 302

Set three in place and three across ~ 303

Set to the 2nd and turn the 3rd / Baulking ~ 303

Swing ~ 304

Swing corners ~ 304

Swing round / Swing with right hand then with left ~ 304

Le Tiroir / Les Tiroirs / Small Square / Double Square ~ 305

Tour de Mains ~ 306

Tour sur place ~ 306

Traversez ~ 306

Turn with both hands / Tour de Mains ~ 309

To the Right and to the Left ~ 311

To the Sides / À Droite sur les Côtes ~ 311

Traverser ~ 311

Turn corners ~ 311

Turn right hand / Turn left hand / La Main / Swing ~ 313

Visiting the set ~ 313

Waltzing in a set ~ 314

Steps in general ~ 315

Steps for country dance ~ 319

Kattfuss 1800 ~ 319

Mädel 1805 ~ 320

Ivensenn 1806 ~ 323

Wilson 1810-1820 ~ 324

Steps in Ecossaises ~ 327

Kattfuss 1800 & 1802 ~ 327

Mädel 1805 ~ 330

Ivensenn 1806 ~ 331

Steps used in Quadrilles ~ 334

Step glossary ~ 336

Assemblé ~ 336

Balancé ~ 337

Ballonné ~ 337

Balloté ~ 338

Battement ~ 338

Bending / Plié ~ 339

Bourrée ~ 340

Change of feet / Changement de jambe / Cross spring ~ 341

Chassé ~ 343

Contretems / Contretemps ~ 346

Coupé ~ 347

Entrechat ~ 347

Eschappé / Flic Flac / Fosgladh ~ 348

Flic Flac / Fosgladh ~ 349

Glissade ~ 349

Jeté ~ 351

Kemkossy- minor / Forçepas / Back-sk… ~ 354

Kemkossy- single & double / Balançepas / Double Irish footing ~ 355

Kemshoole / Pas sauté / Schottische step ~ 357

Minuet (Pas de) ~ 359

Pas de basque ~ 359

Pirouette ~ 360

Rond de Jambe ~ 361

Running footing ~ 361

Seby-trast ~ 362

Sissone ~ 362

Tem(p)s Levé ~ 364

Temps de Courante ~ 365

Zephyr (Pas de) ~ 366

Walking / Pas marché ~ 366

PART 1d:  DANCE TEACHING ~ 367

Dance teaching and leading ~ 368

The importance of dance classes ~ 368

The changing repertoire ~ 373

The teachers of dubious quality ~ 375

The teachers of quality ~ 378

Visual aids ~ 381

Calling ~ 382

Publication and Notation ~ 386

Publication ~ 386

Notation ~ 387

Dance note book ~ 389

Anonymous works and collections ~ 390

Anonymous books ~ 390

Beckers Taschenbuch zum geselligen Vergnügen ~ 391

Other publisher collections ~ 393

Manuscripts ~ 395

Authors and their works ~ 397

Bigatti ~ 397

Blanchard ~ 397

Blasis ~ 397

Campbell ~ 398

Charpentier ~ 399

Chivers ~ 399

Clarchies ~ 400

Collinet ~ 401

Dun ~ 402

Duval ~ 402

Gergoux ~ 403

Gourdoux-Daux ~ 403

Hart ~ 404

Ivensenn ~ 405

Jenkins ~ 405

Kattfuß ~ 406

Länger ~ 407

Lauchery ~ 407

Lowe ~ 407

Lund ~ 408

Mädel ~ 408

Moreau de Saint-Méry ~ 409

Nichols ~ 409

Noke ~ 410

Paine ~ 410

Peacock ~ 413

Rice ~ 414

Roller ~ 414

Rosenhain ~ 414

Saltator ~ 414

Schaffer ~ 416

Simonet ~ 416

Stender ~ 416

Strathy ~ 416

Théleur ~ 416

Thompson ~ 416

Voiart ~ 417

Wills ~ 417

Wilson ~ 41

Part 2a: Dances in detail A-L   (Book 21)

Ah Ça Ira (2) ~ 6

The Alexander ~ 9

Allemande (5) / Strassburger ~ 11

The Attempt ~ 22

L’Augustin Waltz (1&2) ~ 24

La Batteuse ~ 27

The Battle of Leipzig ~ 41

 La Belle Annette & La Batteuse Count ... 42

Butter’d Pease (2) ~ 46

The Caledonian Quadrille ~ 48

Le Carillon de Dunkerque ~ 71

The Chase (1) ~ 81

College Hornpipe ~ 82

The Comet ~ 86

Contre-Ecossaise ~ 88

Conversation (1) & (2) ~ 91

Le Cotillon 1820 (Lauchery)  ~ 106

Le Cotillon 1823 (Lauchery)  ~ 116

Le Cotillon 1823 (Collinet) ~ 131

Countess of Yarmouth’s Fancy ~ 151

Country Bumpkin (2) ~ 153

Country Bumpkin (3) ~ 156

The Cushion Dance (2) ~ 158

The Cushion Dance (3) / Der Polstertanz ~ 162

The Czar ~ 164

Damen Verein ~ 166

The De’il among the Tailors ~ 171

Downfall of Paris ~ 173

Drops of Brandy ~ 178

The Duke of Kent’s Waltz ~ 181

Dutch Dollars ~ 186

Ecossaise mit 2 Colonnen ~ 187

Elegance and Simplicity ~ 191

L’Été ~ 193

The Fair Circassian ~ 195

The Fairy Dance ~ 197

Française en rond ~ 199

Francaise royal ~ 204

The Good Girl ~ 208

The Graces ~ 211

Großvater (1)—Gergoux ~ 214

Großvater (2) / Le Grand-père (Collinet) ~ 226

Haste to the Wedding ~ 238

Highland Laddie (1) ~ 240

Highland Laddie (2, 3 & 4) ~ 242

Highland Laddie & Mr Chivers’ Fancy ~ 244

Les Hussars ~ 246

Isabella (1) ~ 260

Isabella (2) ~ 261

Italian Monfrina (1) ~ 263

Italian Monfrina (2) ~ 265

Joan’s Placket (2a & b) ~ 267

La Josephine ~ 269

Juliana (1) ~ 271

Juliana (2) ~ 273

Juliana (3 & 4) ~ 276

Jumping Joan (3a&b) ~ 279

Kattfuß’s Ecossoise no. 1 ~ 280

Keraus ~ 282

Kreuz-Ecossaisen ~ 288

Lady Caroline Lee’s Waltz (1) ~ 294

Lady Caroline Lee’s Waltz (2) ~ 297

Lancers Quadrille (1) / Les Lanciers (1) ~ 299

The Lancers Quadrille (2) / Duval Lancers ~ 308

The Lancers Quadrille (3) / Hart Lancers ~ 335

Les Lanciers (2) / Les Lanciers for 16 ~ 352

Les Lanciers (3) / Les L. (country dance) ~ 356

Länger’s Ecossaise no.1 ~ 360

Lauchery’s Ecossaise for 1823 ~ 366

Part 2b: Dances in detail M-Z   (Book 22)

Mazurka Quadrille (1) ~ 6

La Monaco ~ 18

Money Musk (2) ~ 22

La Monferine ~ 24

Morgiana in Ireland (1a, b, c) ~ 28

Morgiana in Ireland (2) ~ 30

The Moscovians ~ 33

Mr Chivers’ Fancy (1, 2, 3 and 4) ~ 39

Mr Turner’s Academy Cotillion ~ 42

La Napoléon ~ 45

National Waltz ~ 48

National Waltz and Highland Laddie ~ 51

Nichols’ Favorite ~ 53

Pantalon (1a&b), (2) & (3) ~ 55

Pleasures of the Town (2) ~ 58

Polonaise (3) / La Grande Polonaise ~ 60

La Poule (1) ~ 71

La Poule (2a) ~ 73

La Poule (2b, c, d) ~ 74

La Poule (3a&b) ~ 78

Quadrille Français (1) / Simonet’s ~ 80

Quadrille Français (2a) / Paine’s 1st Set ~ 115

Rond(e) de Rocha(t) ~ 133

The Russian Ambassador’s Waltz ~ 147

Russian Dance (1), (2) and (3) ~ 151

Russian Dance and Morgiana in Ireland ~ 155

Scotch Reel of 3 & of 4 ~ 157

Scotch Reel of 5 (1a&b) ~ 167

Scotch Reel of 5 (2) ~ 171

Scotch Reel of 6 (1a,b&c) ~ 172

Scotch Reel of 6 (2) ~ 176

Sicilian Dance (1) & (2) ~ 179

Sir Roger de Coverley (2a) ~ 181

Sir Roger de Coverley (3) / Haymakers ~ 188

Soldier’s Joy (2a&b) ~ 194

Spanish Dance (1a&b) / The Guaracha ~ 196

La Tempête (1 a, b, c, d) ~ 198

Triolet (1) ~ 221

The Triumph (1b&c, 2) ~ 226

La Trompeuse ~ 231

Tyrolese Waltz and Isabella ~ 234

The Union Waltz ~ 236

La Valse en Cotillon ~ 238

La Vinetta ~ 240

The Volga ~ 242

Waltz (1) / French Waltzing ~ 244

Waltz (2) / German Waltzing / Drehen ~ 266

Waltz in the Russian style ~ 275

Wechsel-Waltzer ~ 279

Wilson’s Quadrilles ~ 283