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 IX 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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N.B. I recommend that in addition to books pertaining to the period you first think of, you also order books from the adjacent period collections and Book 1: 'Orientation and Overview'. Indeed, because of the interconnectivity of dance over the 500 years covered by this series (and the cross-referencing between books in the series), I highly recommend the full set!
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 Part 1: Dance in general (Book 26) PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 8 Balls in general ~ 9 England ~11 Rural dances according to Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy ~ 11 Private balls according to Mrs Henderson ~ 15 Balls for different occasions ~ 16 Hood’s 1868 The physiology of the dance ~ 23 The ball in Trollope’s 1875 The way we live now ~ 29 The first quadrille and the last galop ~ 33 France ~ 37 Views on dance ~ 37 Court balls ~ 41 The private ball in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary ~ 42 The private ball in Zola’s La Curée ~ 44 The private ball in Alcott’s Little Women ~ 49 The private ball in art ~ 50 Public dance halls ~ 52 The Opera balls ~ 57 Central and northern Europe ~ 59 America ~ 63 Regional variation ~ 63 Different types of balls ~ 65 The Calico ball ~ 67 Black dance ~ 78 Commonalities across region and milieu ~ 78 The new couple’s dances ~ 79 Australia and New Zealand ~ 81 Growing sense of Australian identity ~ 81 Ball venues ~ 81 Balls in newspapers ~ 82 Balls in illustrations ~ 84 Music and dance publications ~ 90 The repertoire at a Melbourne Assembly ball in 1875 ~ 91 New Zealand ~ 95 Poland ~ 98 Russia ~ 100 PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 104 The Cotillion ~ 105 In France ~ 105 Elsewhere on the continent ~ 110 America ~ 112 England ~ 114 The Country dance and its relatives ~ 116 Country dances displacing folk dances ~ 116 Sir Roger de Coverley / Virginia Reel ~ 117 Other contexts in which it survived ~ 122 Country dance hybrids ~ 124 The Mazurka ~ 126 In the east ~ 126 In the west ~ 127 In America ~ 129 In Australia ~ 131 Mazurka couples dance hybrids ~ 132 The Minuet ~ 134 The Galop, Polka & variants ~ 135 The Galop ~ 135 The Polka ~ 135 Variants ~ 136 The Polonaise ~ 137 In Poland ~ 137 In Russia ~ 138 In Germany ~ 138 In the west ~ 139 The Quadrille ~ 141 Its popularity ~ 141 Its adaptations ~ 143 Its aberration—the cancan ~ 148 Its ridicule ~ 149 The Reel ~ 151 The Schottische and its relatives ~ 152 Varsovienne / Varsovienna / Varsoviana ~ 155 The Waltz ~ 163 PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 166 Style ~ 167 Etiquette ~ 169 1850s ~ 172 1860-1875 ~ 176 Figures and formations ~ 181 Honours ~ 184 The man’s bow ~ 184 The woman’s courtesy ~ 185 Different bows in different contexts ~ 186 Holds and positions ~ 187 Foot positions ~ 187 Arm holds ~ 189 Steps in general ~ 194 In quadrilles ~ 194 In couple’s dances ~ 195 Steps in Beseda ~ 196 Furiant ~ 196 Hulán ~ 197 Kalamajka ~ 198 Obkročák ~ 198 Polka ~ 199 Redovák ~ 200 Řezanka ~ 200 Sousedská ~ 201 PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 202 Dance teaching ~ 202 The frequency of lessons ~ 202 Dance teachers in general ~ 205 The Turveydrops ~ 206 Markowski ~ 213 Prompting and calling ~ 215 Publications ~ 218 Music publishing ~ 218 Notation ~ 220 Anonymous works ~ 223 Anonymous books ~ 223 Music collections with dance instructions ~ 226 Authored works ~ 229 Bland ~ 229 Blasis ~ 229 Boullay ~ 230 Brookes ~ 230 Brooks ~ 230 Carpenter ~ 231 C.B. ~ 231 Coulon ~ 232 Czerwinski ~ 232 De Garmo ~ 233 De Walden ~ 233 Desrat ~ 234 Dodworth ~ 235 Durang ~ 236 Ferrero ~ 236 Fertiault ~ 237 Gawlikowski ~ 237 Giraudet ~ 238 Gronow ~ 238 Henderson ~ 238 Hillgrove ~ 239 Hood ~ 240 Howe ~ 240 Hughes ~ 241 Ibarra ~ 242 Jarvis ~ 242 Kemp ~ 243 Kurth ~ 243 Laborde ~ 244 Link ~ 244 Lowe ~ 245 Meyen ~ 245 Narrey ~ 246 Polkarius ~ 246 Reilley ~ 246 Ridgeway ~ 247 Roberts ~ 247 Saint-Léon ~ 247 Spencer ~ 247 Wallace ~ 248 Webster ~ 248 Wesner ~ 249 Willcock ~ 249 Wivell ~ 250 Youens ~ 250 |  L’Anglicane ~ 6 Beseda ~ 7 La Boulangère (2) ~ 40 The Chase (2) / Chase the Lady (1) ~ 43 The Chase (3) / Chase the Lady (2) ~ 44 The Chase (4) / Chase the Squirrel ~ 45 Cheat the Lady / Coquette (2) ~ 47 Cinderella Set ~ 49 Cinderella Waltz ~ 53 Circassian Dances ~ 54 Cotillon-mazurka 1858 (Gawlikowski) ~ 64 Coulon’s Double Quadrille ~ 85 La Czarine ~ 100 Dashing White Sergeant (1)108 The Empire Quadrille ~ 111 The Esmeralda (1) ~ 139 The Esmeralda (2a&b) ~ 141 The Esmeralda—Scherpf ~ 146 The Five Step Waltz (2) ~ 150 Galop (2) / Galopade (4) ~ 156 Galopade Country Dance ~ 168 The Gitana Waltz ~ 171 The Gorlitza ~ 174 Highland Reel (2) ~ 189 The Holly Berry ~ 191 Hongroise (1) ~ 193 Hongroise (2) ~ 196 Hop Waltz (1) / La Sauteuse ~ 198 La Koska (1) ~ 200 La Koska (2) / La Coska ~ 203 The Lancers’ Quadrille (4) ~ 206 Lancers for 16 (2) ~ 219 The Mazurka Quadrille (4) / Philadelphia Mazurka Quadrilles ~ 237 The Mazurka Waltz (2) ~ 250 Money Musk (3) ~ 255 Mrs Henderson’s Double Quadrille ~ 258 The New Caledonian Quadrille ~ 270 Nine-Pin Quadrille ~ 277 The Norwegian Country Dance ~ 281 Polka (4) ~ 291 Polka Mazurka (1) /The Australian ~ 304 Polka Mazurka (2) ~ 311 Polka Country Dance ~ 319 Polka Redowa ~ 321 Pop Goes the Weasel (1) ~ 326 Pop Goes the Weasel (2) ~ 335 Prince Imperial Quadrille ~ 336 Princess Alice ~ 370 The Prisoner ~ 373 La Prisonniere ~ 375 |  Quadrille des Dames ~ 6 Quadrille Français (2d) / The Christmas Quadrilles / Russian Quadrilles ~ 24 Quadrille Français (3) / Orpheus Quadrille ~ 57 Quadrille Français (4) ~ 67 Quadrille Russe ~ 101 Redowa (2) ~ 114 Redowa (3) ~ 126 La Russe Quadrille ~ 133 Russian Mazourka Quadrilles ~ 138 Sackett’s Harbor ~ 147 Schottische ~ 150 Sicilian Circle ~ 171 Sir Roger de Coverely (2b) ~ 175 The Tempest ~ 182 La Tempête (3) ~ 186 La Tempête (4) ~ 195 The Triplet ~ 201 Vals des Patineurs ~ 214 Les Varietés Parisiennes ~ 217 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (1) ~ 246 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (2) ~ 256 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (3) ~ 264 Waltz (5) / Glide Waltz ~ 267 The Zingarilla (1) ~ 284 The Zingarilla (2) / La Zingerilla ~ 289 Zulma l’Orientale ~ 291 Zwiefache ~ 298 |
