 Part 1: Dance in general (Book 11) PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8 England ~ 10 Dance under the republic ~ 10 The work of John Playford ~ 12 The links between Playford dance tunes and ballads ~ 13 Dances with links to the Stuart Masque ~ 16 Bargrave’s masque in Constantinople ~ 18 Dances with links to mid-17th century plays ~ 19 Dances with links to aristocrats ~ 22 Dances with continental links ~ 23 Dancing at the Inns of Court ~ 24 Change in Inns of Court dance practise and repertoire ~ 30 Concordance of dances in Inns of Court manuscripts ~ 31 The Restoration and the new French Influence ~ 34 Milton and celestial dance ~ 38 Dances with links to late-17th century plays ~ 39 Dances in late-17th century opera ~ 40 Country dance as a ballroom dance form ~ 44 Dance scene and dance nature diversity ~ 45 The dances in John Shirley’s The triumph of wit ~ 48 France ~ 50 Louis XIV and the Académie royale de danse ~ 50 Increasing theatrical sophistication ~ 57 The Masquerade ~ 58 The formal Versailles ball according to Rameau ~ 59 The formal Versailles ball according to others ~ 63 Balls in the Versailles garden’s salle du bal. ~ 66 Other balls at Versailles ~ 69 Balls in Paris ~ 70 The function of a ball ~ 70 The importation of the English Country Dance ~ 72 Elsewhere ~ 76 Italy ~ 76 Germany and Austria~ 78 Poland ~ 81 Holland ~ 83 Scotland and Ireland ~ 88 Sweden ~ 88 America ~ 89 Spain ~ 89
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 92 Dance order and the Baroque suite ~ 94 The Almain /Allemande ~ 100 The Almain ~ 100 Allemanding ~ 102 The Bourrée ~ 104 The Branle ~ 105 The Country dance ~ 107 Forms and mechanisms in the 1650s & 60s ~ 107 Country dances in non-Playford English sources ~ 109 Table of late 17th century English manuscript country dance descriptions ~ 110 Table of longways country dances that appear in multiple sources ~ 115 New propensities after 1675 and Lorin manuscripts of the 1680s ~ 120 Lorin on the contredance à deux ~ 126 Lorin on the contredance à quatre ~ 127 Lorin on the contredance à six ~ 128 Lorin on doubling up a contredanse ~ 130 Lorin on contredances for fixed numbers ~ 132 Lorin on contradance medleys ~ 133 Lorin on contradance introductions ~ 134 Lorin on dance invention ~ 135 A concordance of Lorin’s dances ~ 135 William Jones and the ‘Parties of six’ ~ 137 Improper contradances ~ 139 The Courant ~ 141 Its importance ~ 141 Its evolution ~ 144 Wycherley’s and Pasch’s Courants ~ 146 The Minuet~ 153 Its origin—the Lully-invented theory~ 153 Its origin—the courant-derived theory~ 153 Its origin—the galliard-derived theory~ 153 Its origin—the branle-derived theory~ 154 Its origin—my ballo-derived theory~ 155 The spread of the Minuet ~ 157 Pavan and galliard ~ 158 The Pavan ~ 158 The Galliard ~ 159 The Polish Dance ~ 160 The ‘relay mixer’ ~ 161 Other dance forms ~ 162 The Rigaudon ~ 162 The Hornpipe and jig ~ 162 The Jig ~ 163 The Masquerade ~ 164 The Sarabande ~ 165
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 168 Style ~ 169 Etiquette ~ 171 Etiquette according to Phillips ~ 171 Etiquette according to de Courtin ~ 172 Etiquette according to Rameau ~ 174 Kissing ~ 176 The Bow ~ 177 The honours that open and close a dance ~ 179 Formations ~ 185 Couple facing couple ~ 185 3-facing-3~ 185 Rounds ~ 185 Squares ~ 186 Couples on the periphery of dance space ~ 187 3-couple longways ~ 187 4 couple longways ~ 187 Non-progressive longways for as many as will ~ 187 Progressive longways for as many as will ~ 188 Other formations ~ 189 Holds and positions ~ 190 Arm and hand holds ~ 190 Orientations ~ 193 Presence ~ 193 Partner / contrary ~ 193 Top / bottom ~ 193 Heads / sides ~ 193 Up / down ~ 193 Above / below ~ 194 Proper / improper ~ 194 Figuring tendencies and propensities ~ 195 Timing ~ 195 Figure sequencing ~ 195 Figure echoing (relaying with overlap) ~ 196 Figures into and out of lines ~ 197 Counter-movements ~ 197 Figures ~ 199 Arches ~ 199 Arming ~ 199 Back-to-back ~ 200 Back Ring ~ 200 Cast (off) ~ 200 Chain / Bootlace ~ 201 Change (places) ~ 201 Circle ~ 203 Clapping ~ 204 Cross ~ 204 Fall ~ 205 Fall back / Back ~ 205 Figure ~ 206 Foot it~ 207 Gesture ~ 208 Go below ~ 209 Go about […] not turning your faces ~ 209 Go round about ~ 210 Gypsy ~ 210 Hands across ~ 210 Hands round ~ 210 Hey ~ 211 Kiss ~ 214 Lead ~ 214 Lead down / slip down ~ 214 Lead up a double ~ 215 Meet ~ 216 Open and close ~ 217 Poussette ~ 217 Right and left ~ 218 Set ~ 218 Set with elbow & foot / side with foot & elbow ~ 220 Sides / Siding ~ 221 To the left hand, etc ~ 222 Turn ~ 223 Turn back to back ~ 224 Turn off ~ 226 Turn single ~ 226 Up a double ~ 226 Weave ~ 226 Steps in general ~ 227 Simplicity in country dancing stepping~ 227 Variety in country dancing stepping ~ 227 Contradance stepping in 3/2 ~ 231 The gavotte step in longways country dancing ~ 233 Steps in the Spanish Pabana ~ 233 Steps in detail ~ 235 Assemblé ~ 235 Balancé ~ 235 Bazio / Vacío~ 235 Bourrée à deux mouvements (pas de) ~ 236 Cabriole / Cabriola / Caper ~ 236 Campanella ~ 238 Cargado ~ 239 Carrerilla ~ 239 Chassé ~ 240 Coupé ~ 240 Courante (pas de) 240 Courante (temps de) ~ 241 Cruzado ~ 241 Degagé ~ 241 Double ~ 241 Encaje ~ 242 Fleuret / Floreo / Floreta~ 242 Jetté ~ 243 Llamada ~ 243 Menuet (pas de) ~ 244 Paso ~ 244 Quatropeado ~ 244 Rompido ~ 245 Sacudido ~ 246 Saute / Sauté ~ 246 Simple / Single ~ 247 Sissone (pas de) ~ 247 Slip ~ 247 Tourné (Pas) ~ 248
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 249 Dance as a study ~ 250 The Vocation ~ 252 Wycherley’s The gentleman-dancing master ~ 257 Publications ~ 268 John Playford’s 1651 English Dancing master ~ 268 Subsequent Dancing master editions ~ 272 Notation ~ 273 Playford’s system ~ 273 The search for a new system ~ 276 Lorin’s system(s) ~ 276 Favier’s system ~ 280 De la Haise’s system ~ 282 Beauchamp’s system ~ 282 Calling ~ 284 Anonymous works ~ 287 The Inns of Court manuscripts ~ 287 The Sloane manuscript ~ 288 Steps for country dancing manuscript ~ 288 BL Add. MS 41996 fol.18 ~ 289 Authors and their works ~ 290 Bargrave ~ 290 Beauchamp~ 290 Boys ~ 290 Bray ~ 291 de Pure ~ 292 Jaque ~ 292 Lorin ~ 292 Ménestrier ~ 293 Pasch ~ 294 Playford ~ 295 Selden ~ 299 Shirley ~ 299 Wycherley ~ 300 |  Part 2a: Dances in detail A-L (Book 12) Adson’s Saraband ~ 6 All in the Garden green ~ 10 Amaryllis ~ 14 Anna Maria ~ 19 Arcadia ~ 21 Argeers ~ 23 Argulius ~ 27 Aye me, or the Simphony ~ 30 Bartlett House ~ 33 The Bath ~ 35 The Begger Boy ~ 37 Bellamira / The Baulk (1) ~ 40 Black Bess ~ 44 Black Jack (1) & (2) ~ 47 Black Nag~ 52 Boat-man ~ 54 Bobbing Joe (2) ~ 57 Bonny grey-Ey’d morn ~ 61 The Bore, or Sweet William ~ 63 Braye’s Magott ~ 65 Broome ~ 67 Buff-coat / La Buffecote ~ 70 Catching of Quails ~ 76 Cheerily and Merrily ~ 79 Chestnut ~ 82 The Chirping of the Nightingale (2) ~ 85 Christchurch Bells (1) ~ 88 Christchurch Bells (2) ~ 93 Cobbler’s Jig ~ 107 Cold and Raw ~ 111 Confesse ~ 113 Contredance nouvelle figurée à huit ~ 117 Courant (3) & (4) ~ 126 The Country Coll ~ 171 Cuckolds all a Row (2) ~ 174 Cupid Garden ~ 178 The Cushion Dance (1) ~ 183 Daniel Cowper (1) ~ 189 Daphne~ 192 Dargason / The Sedany ~ 196 De’il take the Wars (1) ~ 200 The Devil’s Dream ~ 202 Drive the Cold Winter Away ~ 206 The Duke of Gloucester’s March ~ 209 Easter Tuesday ~ 212 Emperor of the Moon ~ 213 Epping Forrest ~ 219 Excuse me ~ 221 Faine I would ~ 229 The Fine Companion ~ 232 The Friar and the Nun (2) ~ 235 Gathering Peascods ~ 238 The Geud Man of Ballangigh ~ 240 The Glory of the West ~ 242 Graies Inn Maske (2) ~ 246 Greenwood (2) ~ 249 Grimstock ~ 253 The Gun Fleet (1) & (2) ~ 255 Half Hannykin ~ 260 Have at thy coat old woman ~ 263 The Health ~ 268 Hearts-ease (2) ~ 271 Hedge Lane (1a&b, 2a&b) ~ 274 Hide Parke ~ 281 Hobb’s Wedding ~ 283 Hockley in the Hole ~ 286 The Hole in the Wall ~ 289 If all the World were Paper ~ 291 The Irish Trot ~ 296 Jack a Lent ~ 302 Jack’s Maggot ~ 305 Jacob Hall’s Jig ~ 306 Jamaica / La bonne amitié ~ 308 Jenny plucked Pears ~ 312 Joan’s Placket (1) / Jeanne qui saute ~ 314 Jog on (2) ~ 318 The Jovial Beggars ~ 322 Juice of Barley ~ 324 Kemp’s Jig ~ 326 The Kettle Drum ~ 330 King of Poland ~ 333 The Last of Twenty ~ 336 Lady in the dark ~ 339 Lady lye near me (1) & (2) ~ 343 Lavena ~ 350 Lilli Burlero (1) ~ 353 The London Gentlewoman ~ 355 Lord of Carnavan’s Jig ~ 362 Love and a Bottle (1) ~ 365 The Lover’s Luck ~ 368 Lulle me beyond thee ~ 371 |  Part 2b: Dances in detail M-Z (Book 13) Mad Robin (1) ~ 6 Mage on a Cree / Margery Cree (1) & (2) ~ 9 Maiden Lane ~ 13 The Maid in the Mill ~ 16 Maid in the Moon ~ 18 The Masque of the Seasons ~ 21 The Maurice Daunce ~ 37 Menuet Anglois / Mr Lane’s Minuet ~ 41 The Milking Payle / Merry Milkmaids (2) ~ 45 The Mill-field ~ 48 Millison’s Jig ~ 51 Mr Beveridge’s Maggot ~ 54 Mr Eaglesfield’s new Hornpipe ~ 56 Mr Isaac’s Maggot /Les Folies d’Isac ~ 58 Mr Lane’s Maggot ~ 66 Mr Lane’s Trumpet Minuet ~ 71 Mr Young’s Delight ~ 76 The Mulberry-Garden (1) & (2) ~ 79 Mundesse ~ 83 My Lady Cullen’s ~ 88 The New Bath ~ 91 New Boe Peep ~ 95 Newcastle ~ 97 The New Exchange (1) & (2) ~ 103 New Rigadoon ~ 108 New Roger / Young Roger ~ 110 The New Vagary / La Nouvelle Figure ~ 116 The Nightpiece ~ 122 Nobody’s Jig ~ 126 Nonesuch / A la Mode de France ~ 128 Northern Nancy ~ 134 Old Simon the King ~ 137 Pabana / Spanish Pavan (2) ~ 140 Parson’s Farewell ~ 151 Parson upon Dorothy (1) / The Shepherd’s Daughter ~ 156 Parson upon Dorothy (2) ~ 160 Paul’s Steeple ~ 163 Peppers Black ~ 168 Poole’s Hole (1) ~ 172 Prince George ~ 174 Prince Rupert’s March ~ 179 Punk’s Delight (1) & (2) ~ 182 Put on thy Smock on a Monday ~ 187 Putney Ferry ~ 189 Put up thy dagger ~ 192 Red House (1) ~ 195 Rigadoon (1) ~ 198 Row Well ye Mariners ~ 201 Rufty Tufty ~ 206 Sage Leaf ~ 209 Saint Martin ~ 212 St. Martin’s Lane ~ 216 The Saraband ~ 219 Scotch Cap ~ 223 The Scotch Measure ~ 226 Sellengers Round ~ 228 Shepheard’s Holiday ~ 232 Short and Sweet ~ 235 Short’s Garden ~ 237 The Siege of Limerick ~ 239 Skellemefago ~ 241 Singleton’s Slip ~ 244 The Slip ~ 248 Smith’s Rant (a) & (b) ~ 251 Spanish Jig (1) ~ 255 Spanish Gypsie / The Gypsies (2) ~ 257 The Spring ~ 260 Staines Morris ~ 262 Step Stately ~ 266 The Stingo, or the Oyl of Barley ~ 269 Strawberries and Cream (1) ~ 273 Sweet Kate ~ 276 Ten Pound Lass (2) ~ 278 The 29th of May ~ 281 Tythe Pig ~ 284 Under and Over / Over and Under ~ 287 Upon a Summers Day ~ 291 Up tailes all ~ 293 Valentine’s Day ~ 297 Vienna (1) ~ 305 Vienna (2) ~ 307 Well Hall ~ 311 What you please ~ 313 The Whirligig ~ 317 Whitehall ~ 320 Windsor Castle ~ 324 Woodicock ~ 327 |
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Dancing through the Ages 1650-1700
Dancing through the Ages is an 10,800 page work offering background on, reconstruction of, and chorded music for nearly 1,000 dances from between from 1400 to 1900, as well as extensive notes analysing links between these dances, the evolution of dance forms, movement ideas and notation systems through this 500 period, and the changing nature of ball culture and dance sources in countries across the old and new word. The whole is supported by thousands of quotations, diagrams and illustrations from original sources.
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Each 3-book Volume is devoted to a particular period and consists of 1,000 plus 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.
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