 Part 1: Dance in general (Book 17) PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8 France ~ 10 Balls at Versailles ~ 10 Opera Balls ~ 12 How did Paris Opera ball actually work? ~ 14 Other Public Balls ~ 16 Developments on stage ~ 16 Dancing during the Terror ~ 19 England ~ 21 The importance of dance ~ 21 The Private Ball ~ 24 The Assemblies ~ 26 Garden settings ~ 30 On Stage ~ 32 At Court ~ 32 Dancing masters’ parties, and the case of Mr Jenkin’s party ~ 34 Scotland, Wales and Ireland ~ 37 Scotland ~ 37 Wales ~ 41 Ireland ~ 43 Italy ~ 45 Dance in the 1787 opera Don Giovanni ~ 45 Dance in Magri’s 1779 Trattato ~ 46 Dance in illustrations ~ 48 Germany, Austria and Hungary ~ 52 The University dance culture ~ 52 The repertoire mix ~ 52 The ‘Englischer’ ~ 53 The ‘Deutscher’ ~ 54 The torch dance ~ 55 Poland and Russia ~ 57 Russia ~ 59 America ~ 61 Before the war ~ 61 During the war ~ 64 After the war ~ 69 In the 1790s ~ 76 Australia ~ 78 First contact dancing ~ 78 Dancing on prison transports ~ 78
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 80 Allemande ~ 82 Origins ~ 82 The couples dance ~ 83 Cautions ~ 88 In cotillions and country dances ~ 89 Contradanse anglaise / Country dance ~ 91 Hogarth and Schiller on its beauty ~ 91 Its popularity ~ 92 Its shape and mechanics ~ 94 Its extemporisation ~ 97 Its composition ~ 100 Its management ~ 101 Blessmann on the English Dance ~ 104 The Ecossaise on the horizon ~ 108 Cotillion / Contredanse français ~ 110 Its origin ~ 110 Its popularity and spred on the continent ~ 111 Its introduction to and popularity in England ~ 111 Its introduction to and popularity in America ~ 113 Its continued popularity in England ~ 114 Its formation ~ 115 Its mechanics ~ 117 The change figures ~ 119 Variants on the contredanse à huit ~ 124 The Douze and Seize ~ 126 The Minuet ~ 127 Its importance ~ 127 Continuing step and figures ~ 131 New phrasing, tempo and formation ~ 132 Its teaching ~ 133 The figured minuets ~ 135 The advent of the Menuet de la cour ~ 136 The Polonaise ~ 137 From 1750-1770 ~ 137 From 1770-1790 ~ 138 The Polska ~ 142 The Quadrille ~ 147 The earliest quadrilles ~ 147 The origin of the Pantalon, L’Été, la Poule and La Trenis combination ~ 148 The Reel ~ 150 The Waltz ~ 153 Other dances ~ 155 The French dances ~ 155 The Hornpipe ~ 156 The Jig ~ 158
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 160 Style ~ 161 Graceful disposition ~ 161 Graceful movement ~ 162 Countenance ~ 163 Equilibrium ~ 165 Timing ~ 165 The bend, rise and lower ~ 166 Degagé ~ 167 Walking ~ 167 For Country dances ~ 168 For Cotillions ~ 168 Arms ~ 170 Etiquette ~ 172 Francis Burney’s Evelina ~ 173 Dress ~ 178 Honours ~ 179 Upon entering a room ~ 179 Honours during a dance—the stationary bow ~ 180 Honours in passing ~ 181 Taking a seat ~ 182 Upon leaving a room ~ 182 Holds and Positions ~ 184 Foot Positions ~ 184 Turn-out~ 184 Allemande arm holds ~ 185 Country dance arm holds ~ 187 Figures in general ~ 190 Country dancing ~ 190 Cotillions ~ 191 Figure glossary~ 193 À la Droite / Chassez à la droite ~ 193 Allemande ~ 193 Aller figurer devant un couple ~ 195 Avant Deux ~ 195 Back to back / Dos à Dos ~ 196 Balance / Balancé ~ 196 Baulking ~ 197 Cast ~ 197 Cerceau brisé ~ 202 Chaîne Anglaise ~ 202 Chaîne des Dames / Petite Chaîne ~ 202 Change / Change over ~ 203 Chassé ~ 203 Circle ~ 206 Cross of Malta ~ 206 Cross over~ 206 Dos à Dos ~ 209 Down and back ~ 209 Draw ~ 212 En Avant ~ 212 Figure of Eight ~ 212 Foot Abreast ~ 216 Foot across and turn ~ 217 Forward and back / Avant Deux / En Avant ~ 217 Grande Carré / Grand Square ~ 218 Grand Chain / Chaine ~ 218 Grand Square / Grande Carré ~ 218 Half-moon / Horseshoe ~ 219 Hands across / Moulinet ~ 220 Hands round / circle ~ 222 Hey ~ 224 Hunt / Chase ~ 225 Lady’s chain ~ 226 Lead ~ 226 Lead Outside ~ 227 Lead to the walls ~ 229 Line / Muraille / die Mauer ~ 229 The Lovers Knot ~ 230 La Main ~ 230 Les Mains ~ 230 Moulinet ~ 230 Passes ~ 231 Les Petites chaînes~ 231 Pirouette ~ 231 Poussette / Draw ~ 232 Promenade ~ 233 Queue du Chat (La) ~ 235 Right and Left / Chaîne Anglaise ~ 236 La Rond / Circle ~ 238 Set and Turn ~ 240 Set to corners ~ 241 Shift partners ~ 241 Snail ~ 242 Square ~ 242 Sur les Côtes ~ 243 Turn / Les Main ~ 243 Turn / swing / chain corners ~ 244 Turn right hand / Turn left hand / La Main ~ 245 Turn single ~ 246 Waltzing in a set ~ 246 Weaves / Enchainement ~ 247 Steps in general ~ 250 Step choice ~ 250 Step quality ~ 251 Step timing ~ 251 Steps in country dancing ~ 253 Pauli 1756 and Winterschmid 1758 ~ 254 Lange 1763 ~ 255 A.D. Dancing master ~ 256 Petersen 1768 ~ 256 Feldtenstein 1772 ~ 257 ‘Von einem Böhmen’ 1777 ~ 259 Magri 1779 ~ 263 Petersen 1791 ~ 265 Steps used in Cotillions ~ 267 Step glossary ~ 269 Allemande (Pas de) ~ 269 Assemblé ~ 269 Balancé ~ 271 Balleto Fermo ~ 272 Ballonné (Pas) ~ 272 Balloté ~ 273 Basque (Pas de) ~ 273 Bourrée (Pas de) / Fleuret ~ 274 Brisé (Pas)~ 277 Changement de Jambe ~ 278 Chassé ~ 278 Contretemps de gavotte ~ 280 Contretemps de minuet ~ 282 Coupé ~ 282 Demi-Contretemps ~ 282 Demi-coupé ~ 283 Demi-jeté ~ 284 Écossois (Pas) ~ 284 Echappé (Pas) ~ 284 Fleuret ~ 285 Footing ~ 285 Fouetté ~ 285 Flinc, Flanc ~ 285 Galop / Gallop ~ 286 Glissade ~ 287 Jeté ~ 287 Marcel (Pas de) ~ 288 Marché (Pas) ~ 289 Minuet steps in general ~ 290 Minuet—3 movements, hemiolic with leap ~ 292 Minuet—3 movements, hemiolic without leap ~ 292 Minuet—3 movements, non-hemiolic no leap ~ 293 Minuet—2 movements, hemiolic without leap ~ 296 Minuet—2 or 3 movements, non-hemiolic ~ 298 Minuet—other variants, Pas de Marcel ~ 303 Pas Angloise / Footing ~ 305 Pas Écossaise ~ 306 Pas grave / Passo grave / Tems de courante ~ 307 Pirouette ~ 307 Quatre Pas ~ 308 Rigaudon / Rigadoon ~ 309 Set ~ 310 Sissone ~ 311 Tems (Temps) Levé ~ 311 Zephyr (Pas de) ~ 311
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 312 The necessity of lessons ~ 313 Good and bad teaching ~ 319 Bad teaching ~ 319 Good teaching ~ 321 The Vocation ~ 327 In England and Ireland ~ 327 In Scotland ~ 328 In Ireland ~ 330 In Europe ~ 330 In America ~ 331 Publications ~ 337 Notations systems ~ 340 Feuillet cut-down system ~ 340 De la Cuisse’s system ~ 345 Magri’s system ~ 353 Bacquoy-Guédon’s system ~ 354 Guillaume and Dubois’ system ~ 355 Directing figures ~ 356 Choosing figures ~ 356 Calling figures ~ 358 Anonymous and collected works ~ 360 Anonymous manuscripts ~ 360 Dance sections inside other works ~ 361 Anonymous or publisher collections from London ~ 361 Anonymous or publisher collections from Paris, Vienna, Dublin and America ~ 363 Authors and their works ~ 364 A.D. ~ 364 Bacquoy-Guédon ~ 364 Becker ~ 365 Bishop ~ 366 Bleßmann ~ 366 Brives ~ 366 Budd ~ 367 Cahusac ~ 367 Campbell ~ 368 Chesterfield ~ 369 Compan ~ 369 D’Auternaux ~ 370 De La Cuisse ~ 370 Delpêch ~ 371 Dubois ~ 371 Dukes ~ 372 Feldtenstein ~ 372 Fishar ~ 372 Fraisier~ 373 Friske ~ 373 Gallini ~ 374 Gardiner ~ 375 Gautier ~ 375 Gherardi ~ 376 Griffiths ~ 376 Guillaume ~ 377 Guillemin ~ 377 Hänsel ~ 377 Hullin~ 378 Hurst ~ 378 Iza Zamácola ~ 378 Jones ~ 379 Landrin ~ 379 Lange ~ 380 Laurent ~ 380 Link ~ 381 Old Master of Ceremonies ~ 381 Magny ~ 382 Magri ~ 382 Malpied ~ 382 Markordt ~ 383 Marset ~ 384 Minguet é Irol ~ 384 Pantezze ~ 385 Petersen ~ 385 Sancho ~ 385 Schmiedt ~ 386 Thompson ~ 386 Weis ~ 388 Werner ~ 388 Willcox ~ 388 Willsim ~ 389 Winterschmid ~ 389 |  Part 2a: Dances in detail A-L (Book 18) Adonis ~ 6 Ah Ça Ira (1) ~ 17 Allemande (3) ~ 20 Allemande (4) ~ 30 Allemande à trois ~ 46 Allemande du Devin de Village ~ 58 Allemande Suisse ~ 62 Always Drunk and Never Sober (2) ~ 66 Aly Grogan & Round O ~ 69 Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (1) ~ 76 Anglaise de chez l’embassadeur (2) ~ 78 Anglaise de la Reine (1) ~ 80 Anglaise de la Reine (2) ~ 82 Anglaise de la Rhein (3) ~ 85 Anglaise de la Reine (4) ~ 87 Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (1) ~ 89 Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (2) ~ 91 Barley Mow ~ 93 La Baroque ~ 95 La Belle Alliance ~ 97 Le Belle Assemble ~ 100 Les Belles Filles de Norwich ~ 103 Bevis Mount ~ 106 La Bionni ~ 108 The Bishop ~ 115 The Black Dance (1) ~ 117 The Black Dance (2) ~ 119 La Bonne Amitié ~ 123 Le Bois de Boulogne ~ 125 Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.1 ~ 128 Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.2 ~ 133 Blessmann’s Englischer Tanz nr.3 ~ 136 Bonny Lass of our Town ~ 140 La Boulangère (1) ~ 142 La Bouquette ~ 147 The British Amusements ~ 149 Der Canontanz ~ 152 Carillon (1) / Der Carillon ~ 158 Carillon National ~ 170 The Changing ~ 174 La Chasse d’Amour ~ 176 Cockney’s Frolic ~ 179 La Cométe ~ 181 The Comical Fellow ~ 183 Congo Minuet ~ 185 The Cossack ~ 201 Country Bumpkin (1) ~ 204 Daniel Cowper (2a&b) / Daniel Cooper ~ 217 Douze ~ 223 The Dusky Night ~ 227 L’Été / La Polimnie ~ 228 The Fair Maid of the Inn ~ 231 The Fandango ~ 232 Feldtenstein’s no. 4 ~ 234 Feldtenstein’s no. 5 ~ 236 Feldtenstein’s No. 6 ~ 238 Fête Champêtre ~ 240 La Folie ou le Goût du Siècle ~ 242 The Fourth of June ~ 248 La Fricassée (1) ~ 251 La Fricassée (2) ~ 255 Fricke’s no.1 ~ 259 La Fuiarde ~ 262 Galopade (1a & b) ~ 264 The Hanoverian Waltz ~ 271 The Happy Captive ~ 273 The Irish Washer Woman ~ 275 Le Jardin Enchanté ~ 277 La Jesuite, or, the Jesuit ~ 281 Le Jeu des quatre coins ~ 285 Les Jolis Garçons ~ 288 Lasses of Portsmouth ~ 292 Leather Lake House ~ 294 Link’s Englischer Contre-Tanz no. 2 ~ 297 Link’s Englischer Contre-Tanz no. 4 ~ 299 Linnen Hall ~ 302 Lord Nelson’s Waltz ~ 304 |  Part 2b: Dances in detail M-Z (Book 19) The Macaroni ~ 6 Magri’s contradanza I ~ 8 Magri’s contradanza II ~ 10 Magri’s contradanza no. VIII ~ 13 Magri’s contradanza no. XVI ~ 15 Magri’s contradanza no. XXIX ~ 17 Magri’s contradanza XXXVIII ~ 19 La Maison du Bois ~ 28 Marset’s no.1 / The Baulk (2) ~ 30 Marset’s no.2 ~ 33 La Méditation des Chinois ~ 36 Menuet de la cour (1) ~ 44 La Mignonette ~ 69 Minuet (2) ~ 73 Miss Bland’s Allemande ~ 119 Money Musk (1) ~ 121 La Musette ~ 125 Mutual Love ~ 127 New Christmas Eve ~ 129 The New German Waltz (1) & (2) ~ 133 New Twelfth Night ~ 137 Les Ombres Chinois ~ 142 Opera Reel (1) 145 Le Palais de l’amour ~ 147 Les Pantalons / L’Élisé ~ 150 La Perigourdine ~ 154 Petersen’s Englischer Tanz no. 5 ~ 161 Petersen’s Englischer Tanz no.9 ~ 165 Les Plaisirs de la Jeunesse ~ 167 Pleasures of the Town (1a&b) ~ 171 Polonaise (1) / The Polish dance ~ 173 Polonaise (2) / Neu Figurirte Polonoise ~ 179 La Pontlevoy ~ 184 La Pouvoir de la Beauté ~ 189 Der Prager-Student / Student of Prague ~ 192 Le Prince de Galles ~ 200 Prince of Wales’ Cotillion ~ 203 The Princess of Wales’s Waltz ~ 206 The Prussian Camp ~ 208 Le Quadrille ~ 210 Les Quadrilles ~ 216 Les Quatre Berceaux ~ 225 Les Quatre Nymphes (1) ~ 231 Les Quatre Nymphes (2) ~ 235 Les Quatre Saisons ~ 238 La Réverbère ~ 240 Rigadoon (3) / Rigodon ~ 244 La Riswic ~ 252 Ruffs and Rhees ~ 254 The Savage Dance ~ 256 Schmiedt’s Angloise No.1 ~ 258 Schmiedt’s Quadrille No.1 ~ 260 Scotch Lilt ~ 264 A School for Scandal ~ 266 Shrewsbury Lasses ~ 268 Soldier’s Joy (1a&b) ~ 270 La Strasbourgeoise (1) ~ 272 La Strasbourgeoise (2) ~ 276 Strawberries and Cream (3) ~ 282 Sun Assembly ~ 284 The Touchstone ~ 287 Le Tourbillon ~ 288 Les Triangles ~ 290 A Trip to Highgate ~ 295 The Triumph (1a) ~ 296 La Voltaire et la Franklein ~ 299 Von einem Böhmen no.1 ~ 303 Von einem Böhmen no.2 ~ 305 Von einem Böhmen no.9 ~ 307 Wakefield Hunt ~ 311 Waltz (on a fan) ~ 313 Wednesday Night ~ 315 Wernigeröder Englischer Tanz nom. 19 ~ 316 La Windsor ~ 319 The Wish ~ 324 The Young Widow ~ 326 |
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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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