 Part 1: Dance in general (Book 26) PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 7 Balls in general~ 8 The ball’s purpose ~ 8 The ball’s order ~ 8 The role of publishing in commonality of programming and practice ~ 10 England ~ 11 Court-hosted dancing ~ 11 Pleasure Garden dancing ~ 11 Rural dances according to Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy ~ 13 Private balls according to Mrs Henderson~ 17 Balls for different occasions ~ 18 Children’s ball ~ 22 The costume ball ~ 23 Hood’s 1868 The physiology of the dance ~ 25 The ball in Trollope’s 1875 The way we live now ~ 31 The first quadrille and the last galop ~ 34 France ~ 38 Looking in & back and forward & out ~ 38 Markowski and the invention of new dances ~ 39 Boullay’s damning of the new couples dances ~ 40 Court balls ~ 44 The private ball in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary ~ 45 The private ball in Zola’s La Curée ~ 47 The private ball in Alcott’s Little Women ~ 51 The private ball in art ~ 53 The Opera balls ~ 54 The public dance halls ~ 56 Public dancehall cancan ~ 64 Elsewhere in Europe ~ 67 Northern Europe ~ 67 Central Europe ~ 68 Italy ~ 72 America ~ 73 Regional variation ~ 73 The new couple’s dances ~ 75 Different types of balls ~ 76 The Calico ball ~ 78 Black dance ~ 88 Australia and New Zealand ~ 90 Growing sense of Australian identity ~ 90 Ball venues ~ 90 Account of a ball in Melbourne in 1870 ~ 91 Balls in illustrations ~ 93 Music and dance publications ~ 99 Masquerade Ball program Melbourne 1852 ~ 101 Assembly ball program Melbourne 1875 ~ 103 New Zealand ~ 106 India ~ 109 The ball according to Atkinson ~ 109 Poland ~ 112 Russia ~ 114
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 118 The Cotillion ~ 120 In France ~ 120 In Central and Eastern Europe ~ 126 America ~ 127 England ~ 130 The Country dance and its relatives ~ 132 Country dances displacing folk dances ~ 132 Sir Roger de Coverley / Virginia Reel ~ 133 The Galopade Country Dance ~ 139 Other contexts in which it survived ~ 139 Country dance hybrids ~ 141 The Mazurka ~ 144 In the east ~ 144 In France ~ 145 In England ~ 148 In America ~ 150 In Australia ~ 151 Mazurka couples dance hybrids ~ 153 The Mazurka Waltz ~ 153 The Polka Redowa ~ 153 The Polka Mazurka ~ 154 Further hybrids ~ 156 The Minuet ~ 157 The Galop, Polka & variants ~ 158 The Galop ~ 158 The Polka ~ 158 Variants ~ 160 The Polonaise ~ 162 In Poland ~ 162 In Russia ~ 163 In Germany ~ 163 In the west ~ 164 The Quadrille ~ 166 Its popularity ~ 166 Its adaptations ~ 168 Its aberration—the cancan ~ 174 Its ridicule ~ 175 The Reel ~ 177 The Schottische and its relatives ~ 179 Varsovienne / Varsovienna / Varsoviana ~ 183 The Waltz ~ 199
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 202 Style ~ 203 Etiquette ~ 207 1850s ~ 210 1860-1875 ~ 214 Honours ~ 220 The man’s bow ~ 220 The woman’s courtesy ~ 221 Different bows in different contexts ~ 222 Holds and positions ~ 223 Foot positions ~ 223 Arm holds ~ 225 Formations ~ 231 Figures ~ 232 The corner Allemande ~ 233 Ladies’ chain ~ 233 The St. Simonienne ~ 234 Steps in general ~ 236 In quadrilles ~ 236 In couple’s dances ~ 237 Steps in Beseda ~ 238 Furiant ~ 238 Hulán ~ 239 Kalamajka ~ 240 Obkročák ~ 240 Polka ~ 241 Redovák ~ 242 Řezanka ~ 242 Sousedská ~ 243 Mazurka steps ~ 244 Pas glissé (1) – hop first ~ 245 Pas glissé (2) – glide first ~ 246 Pas de basque (Polonois) ~ 248 Pas boiteux / Hobble (2) ~ 249 Coup de talon (1) / Pas Polonais / Hobble (1) ~ 250 Coup de talon (2) / Heel-clicks in a row ~ 252 Holubiec / Tour sur place ~ 252 Pas chassé ~ 254
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 257 Dance teaching ~ 258 Dance teachers in general ~ 258 The dancing academy ~ 258 The frequency of lessons ~ 260 The Turveydrops ~ 262 Markowski ~ 269 Prompting and calling ~ 275 Publications ~ 278 Music publishing ~ 278 Notation ~ 281 Anonymous works ~ 283 Anonymous books ~ 283 Music collections with dance instructions ~ 286 Authored works ~ 289 Bland ~ 289 Blasis ~ 289 Boullay ~ 290 Brookes ~ 290 Brooks ~ 290 Carpenter ~ 291 C.B. ~ 291 Coulon ~ 292 Czerwinski ~ 292 De Garmo ~ 293 Della Croce ~ 293 De Walden ~ 294 Desrat ~ 294 Dodworth ~ 295 Durang ~ 296 Ferrero ~ 297 Fertiault ~ 298 Gawlikowski ~ 298 Giraudet ~ 298 Gronow ~ 298 Henderson ~ 299 Hillgrove ~ 300 Hood ~ 300 Howe ~ 301 Hughes ~ 302 Ibarra ~ 302 Jarvis ~ 303 Kemp ~ 303 Kurth~ 303 Laborde ~ 304 Link ~ 304 Lowe ~ 305 Meyen ~ 306 Narrey ~ 306 Polkarius ~ 306 Reilley ~ 307 Renausy ~ 307 Ridgeway ~ 308 Roberts~ 308 Saint-Léon ~ 308 Spencer~ 308 Wallace ~ 309 Webster~ 309 Wesner ~ 310 Willcock ~ 310 Wivell ~ 310 Youens ~ 311 |  L’Anglicane ~ 6 Beseda ~ 9 La Boulangère (2) ~ 42 The Chase (2) / Chase the Lady (1) ~ 45 The Chase (3) / Chase the Lady (2) ~ 46 The Chase (4) / Chase the Squirrel ~ 47 Cheat the Lady / Coquette (2) ~ 49 Cinderella Set ~ 51 Cinderella Waltz ~ 55 Circassian Circle (3)—Hillgrove’s ~ 56 Cotillon-mazurka 1858 (Gawlikowski) ~ 63 Coulon’s Double Quadrille ~ 86 La Czarine ~ 101 Dashing White Sergeant (1) 109 The Empire Quadrille ~ 112 The Esmeralda (1) ~ 140 The Esmeralda (2a&b) ~ 142 The Esmeralda—Scherpf ~ 147 The Five Step Waltz (2) ~ 151 Galop (2) / Galopade (4) ~ 157 Galopade Country Dance (3) ~ 169 The Gitana Waltz / La Carlowitzka ~ 174 The Gorlitza ~ 177 The Gothic Dance ~ 192 Highland Reel (2) ~ 195 The Holly Berry ~ 197 Hongroise (1a&b) ~ 199 Hongroise (2) ~ 204 Hop Waltz (1) / La Sauteuse ~ 208 L’Impériale ~ 210 La Koska (1) ~ 220 La Koska (2) / La Coska ~ 223 The Lancers’ Quadrille (4) ~ 226 Lancers for 16 / Double Lancers ~ 239 The Mazurka Quadrille (5) / Philadelphia Mazurka Quadrilles ~ 257 The Mazurka Waltz (2) ~ 270 Money Musk (3) ~ 275 Mrs Henderson’s Double Quadrille ~ 278 The New Caledonian Quadrille ~ 290 Nine-Pin Quadrille ~ 297 The Norwegian Country Dance ~ 301 Opera Reel (2) / Celebrated Opera Reel ~ 310 Polka (4) ~ 312 Polka Country Dance ~ 325 Polka Mazurka (1) / The Australian ~ 327 Polka Mazurka (2a&b) ~ 336 Polka Redowa ~ 348 Pop Goes the Weasel (1) ~ 354 Pop Goes the Weasel (2) ~ 363 Prince Imperial Quadrille ~ 365 Princess Alice ~ 399 La Prisonniere ~ 402 |  Quadrille des Dames ~ 6 Quadrille Français (2d) / Russian Quadrilles / The Christmas Quadrilles ~ 24 Quadrille Français (2e) / Le Pacha Quadrille / The Rose Bay Quadrilles ~ 56 Quadrille Français (3) / Orpheus Quadrille ~ 70 Quadrille Français (4) ~ 81 Quadrille Russe ~ 116 Redowa (2) ~ 131 Redowa (3) ~ 147 La Russe Quadrille ~ 154 Russian Mazourka Quadrilles ~ 159 Sackett’s Harbor ~ 168 Schottische ~ 171 Sicilian Circle ~ 191 La Sicilienne ~ 195 Sir Roger de Coverely (2b) ~ 215 The Tempest ~ 223 La Tempête (3) ~ 227 La Tempête (4) ~ 236 The Triplet ~ 242 L’Universelle ~ 255 1) Schottishe 255 2) Polka 256 3) Redowa 256 4) Mazurka 256 5) Tarantella 257 Vals des Patineurs ~ 270 Les Varietés Parisiennes ~ 273 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (1) ~ 302 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (2) ~ 312 La Varsovienne / The Varsovienna (3) ~ 322 Waltz (5) / Glide Waltz ~ 325 The Zingarilla (1) ~ 342 The Zingarilla (2) / La Zingerilla ~ 347 Zulma l’Orientale ~ 349 Zwiefache ~ 357 |
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Dancing through the Ages 1850-1875
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.
The work is broken into 31 books, each of between 300 and 460 (average 350) double-sided A4 pages. After the 'Orientation and Overview' book 1, the work is organised into ten 'Volumes', each of 3 books.
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.
To order any or all of the books in this 31-book series go to (PUBLISHER's WEBSITE ORDER PAGE LINK TO APPEAR HERE MID AUGUST 2020 when grand work is finally available!) . The books are AUS$35 each (approximately US$25), plus postage which will diminish with the more books in your order. As your books will be sent from the nearest Lulu printer on your continent, you will not be paying for overseas shipping and will not be waiting long for the books to arrive. Orders are normally filled at local postage rates within a week.
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Below are the front covers and contents of the three books that constitute Volume IX in the series.
