Dancing through the Ages 1875-1900
Dancing through the Ages (October, 2020) is a 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 LULU. The books are AUS$36 each (approximately US$27), 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.
N.B. I recommend that in addition to ordering the books pertaining to the period you first think of, you also order books from the adjacent period collections plus the invaluable 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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Below are the front covers and contents of the three books that constitute Volume X in the series.
Part 1: Dance in general (Book29)
Part 2b: Dances in detail A-M (Book 30)
The Albert’s (1) ~ 6
The Albert’s (2) ~ 25
Asher’s Minuet ~ 36
Baby Polka / Finger Polka / La Badoise ~ 44
The Berlin Polka / La Berline / Alsatian Polka / Polka Militaire ~ 50
Bohemian Polka / Heel and Toe ~ 69
The Boston-Ball / Waltz Futsal~ 73
The Cake Walk ~ 84
Charge of the Light Brigade ~ 97
Les Cinq Parties du Monde ~ 108
Circassian Circle (4) — Lovenberry’s ~ 118
Combination Polka ~ 124
Coquette (3a&b) / Glide Polka ~ 126
Coquette (4a&b) ~ 129
Cotillon medley with blindfolds ~ 132
Le Colin-Maillard ~ 132
Blind Man’s Bluff ~ 133
The Weak leading the Blind ~ 134
Cotillon medley with cards ~ 135
The Cards—1 ~ 135
The Cards—2 ~ 135
The Cards—3 ~ 136
Cotillon medley with 4 chairs facing in ~ 137
The 4 Chairs (The ‘Whirligig’) ~ 137
The Figure 8 ~ 138
The Seated Ladies ~ 139
The Four Corners ~ 140
Cotillon medley with 8 chairs facing out ~ 141
The Gentleman Kneels ~ 141
The Free Chairs ~ 142
Musical chairs ~ 143
Cotillon medley with choice ~ 144
Cotillon with basket, ring & flower ~ 144
Flowers and Animals ~ 145
Blind choice ~ 146
Cotillon medley with circles and columns / Farandole ~ 148
The Reunion ~ 150
The Snail ~ 151
The Labyrinth ~ 152
The Bridge ~ 153
The Double Serpent ~ 153
The Zigzag ~ 154
The Chain without end ~ 155
The Arch ~ 156
Cotillon medley with fans ~ 158
The Fan / The Kangarooo ~ 158
Cotillon L’Eventail ~ 160
Fans in a hat ~ 162
Cotillon medley with scarves (1) ~ 163
The Twisted Handkerchief ~ 163
The Flying Scarfs ~ 164
The Scarf Cross ~ 164
The Handkerchief Chase ~ 165
The Scarfs ~ 166
Cotillon medley with scarves (2) ~ 168
The Lassoo ~ 168
The Snake ~ 169
Satyrs and Nymphs ~ 170
Cotillon medley with a sheet ~ 171
The Canopy ~ 171
The Mysterious Hands ~ 172
Cotillon medley with surprises~ 174
Moulinet Surprise ~ 175
Les Surprises ~ 176
Les Quatre Couples ~ 177
Le Loup / The Wolf ~ 178
Cotillons with hat and gloves ~ 179
Cotillons with mixing ~ 181
The Meeting ~ 181
The Exchange ~ 182
The Pursuit ~ 182
The Serpent ~ 183
The Circles ~ 184
The Winding Alley ~ 185
Repeating / Ending ~ 185
The Arbour ~ 186
Cotillons with other props ~ 187
The Circus ~ 187
The Spinning-top ~ 188
The team ~ 189
Cross Step Polka ~ 190
La Dance Florence / Dashing White Sergeant (2) ~ 192
Double Glide Waltz ~ 198
L’Élégante ~ 199
L’Éxcentrique ~ 200
The Fitzroy Quadrille ~ 201
The Five Step Waltz (3) ~ 214
Galop (2) ~ 218
Galop (3) ~ 222
Galop (4) / Rhein Galop / Danish Waltz / Manchester ~ 225
Ganglovienne / Ostendaise Valsée ~ 229
Gavotte du Pas de Quatre ~ 237
La Giraudette ~ 249
Greensleeves ~ 250
Highland Schottische ~ 253
Hongroise (3) / Valse Hongroise ~ 261
Hop Waltz (2) ~ 267
Kreuz Polka ~ 268
The Lancers’ Quadrille (5) / Pirates of Penzance ~ 273
Lancers for 16 (3) ~ 295
Loomis Glide Mazurka ~ 298
Menuet de la cour (2) ~ 302
Menuet de la Cour (3) / ... à la Reine (2) ~ 325
Menuet de la cour Quadrille ~ 335
Military Schottische / Pas de Quatre / Barn Dance ~ 338
Part 2b: Dances in detail N-Z (Book 31)
New Lancers (2- Crompton’s) ~ 6
The Newport ~ 16
Ostendaise ~ 27
Oxford Minuet ~ 42
La Parisienne ~ 48
Pas de trois ~ 56
Pas des Patineurs ~ 62
Polish Galop ~ 72
Polka Mazurka (3) / The Waratah ~ 75
Polka Piquée (1), (2) & (3) ~ 82
Polka Russe (1) ~ 86
Polka Russe (2) ~ 88
Polka Russe (3) / Troika ~ 102
Le Polo ~ 109
Polonaise (5) / The Grand March ~ 158
Opening circuit~ 158
Column up the middle ~ 158
Passing files ~ 159
Zigzagging Column ~ 160
Into Platoons ~ 161
Reverse Platoon ~ 162
Half Columns ~ 162
Arbour ~ 163
The Serpent / Snail ~ 164
Conclusion—with a waltz ~ 165
Conclusion—with head and side lines ~ 166
The Prince of Wales Schottische ~ 178
Quadrille Classique ~ 182
Le Quadrille de Jean Gilles ~ 191
Quadrille Giraudet ~ 201
Quadrille Français (5) / The Sydney Exhibition Quadrille ~ 220
Quadrille Polo Américain ~ 252
Rédowa (4) / Redowa Waltz ~ 270
Reel of Nine (2) ~ 272
La Russe ~ 275
The Russia ~ 279
Sagantina Nancéenne ~ 281
Singing Quadrille / Quadrille Français (6) ~ 288
Sir Roger de Coverley (4b) / Virginia Reel (2) ~ 298
Sir Roger de Coverley (5a&b) ~ 302
Sir Roger de Coverley (6) / Gigue Anglais / Gigue Américaine ~ 315
Spanish Waltz (3) ~ 332
Stéphanoise ~ 337
The Tantivy ~ 339
La Tempête (5) ~ 351
Waltz (6 a&b) / The Boston / Boston Dip ~ 353
a) The Glide or Boston ~ 353
b) The Boston Dip ~ 355
Waltz Minuet (1-Gilbert’s) ~ 364
Waltz Minuet (2- Crompton’s) ~ 366
PART 1a: DANCE CONTEXT ~ 7
Britain ~ 9
Rural dances ~ 10
The State ball ~ 12
Public assembly room dancing ~ 13
The ball at home ~ 16
The special balls ~ 20
Leap year balls ~ 26
Picnic balls ~ 27
Fancy dress ~ 27
The Calico ball ~ 29
The private ball with new dance display~ 31
The ball according to Sara Jeanette Duncan ~ 33
Cinderella dances ~ 37
Dancing in Scotland ~ 38
France ~ 40
Dance halls ~ 40
The Incoherent balls ~ 46
The Opera balls ~ 46
Historical costume balls ~ 49
Central and Northern Europe ~ 51
Balls for all levels of society ~ 51
The torch dance ~ 55
The cushion dance ~ 57
The costumed ball ~ 58
The ‘Ragged’ ball ~ 59
America ~ 60
The popularity of dancing ~ 60
The critics of dancing ~ 61
Nostalgia and innovation ~ 64
Black dance ~ 64
The West Indies ~ 68
Australia ~ 69
The repertoire in dance manuals ~ 69
Concordance of dance manual repertoire ~ 72
Ball programs ~ 74
All sorts of balls ~ 77
The Sydney Exhibition Hall ball of 1879 ~ 79
The Melbourne Exhibition Hall ball of 1881 ~ 80
Town Hall balls, such as Adelaide 1893 ~ 85
Balls in illustrations ~ 86
Poland ~ 89
Russia ~ 90
The ball in Anna Karenina ~ 92
Embracing the round dance ~ 96
Elsewhere ~ 97
PART 1b: DANCE FORMS ~ 99
The Cotillon ~ 100
In Russia ~ 100
In Germany ~ 100
In France ~ 113
In America ~ 119
In England ~ 125
In Australia ~ 127
Its props and favours ~ 128
Its conducting according to an anonymous French source ~ 130
Its arrangement according to an Italian source ~ 133
Its management according to American sources ~ 134
The Country dance and its relatives ~ 144
The whole-set ‘finishing dance’ ~ 144
The hybrid country dance ~ 148
The longways proper country dance ~ 149
The Mazurka ~ 152
In Poland and Russia ~ 152
In the west ~ 157
The Minuet ~ 167
The Polka and Galop ~ 182
The Polka ~ 182
The Galop ~ 184
The Polka and Galop’s changing role ~ 184
The ‘brief-footing’ Polka family~ 185
The Princess Polka ~ 186
The Polonaise ~ 189
In Poland ~ 189
In Russia ~ 189
In Germany ~ 192
In the west ~ 193
The Quadrille ~ 195
Its step ~ 195
Its mechanism ~ 196
Its leadership ~ 197
Its uses and ‘abuses’ ~ 198
It’s survival ~ 201
The Reel ~ 204
The Schottische and Pas de quatre ~ 205
The popularization of Schottische variants ~ 206
Iolanthe ~ 210
The Cake-Walk ~ 221
The Varsovienna / Varsovianna ~ 228
The Waltz ~ 233
PART 1c: DANCE ELEMENTS ~ 239
Style ~ 240
Changing foot work ~ 242
Arms ~ 243
Dress ~ 243
Etiquette ~ 245
Satyrical prose ~ 245
Satryrical illustrations ~ 246
From dance manuals, 1875-1880 ~ 253
From dance manuals of the 1880s and 90s~ 256
The dance card ~ 262
Honours ~ 268
The man and woman’s honour ~ 268
The honour in context ~ 269
Holds and formations ~ 275
Holding hands ~ 275
Positions of the feet ~ 275
Couple’s dances ~ 276
The Set dances ~ 284
Figures ~ 290
Swing ~ 290
French terms ~ 291
La contredanse Française main figures ~ 294
La contredanse Française / Quadrille finale figures—Rose, Galop etc ~ 297
Steps ~ 302
For travelling in a quadrille ~ 302
For travelling in a reel ~ 303
For setting in a quadrille ~ 303
For setting in a Scotch reel ~ 304
For the essential couple’s dances ~ 305
PART 1d: DANCE TEACHING ~ 307
The Profession ~ 308
Organising the profession ~ 308
Dance teachers ~ 309
Dancing masters studios ~ 310
Sydney dancing master West ~ 313
The rewards and disappointments ~ 314
Dance teaching techniques ~ 317
Prompting and calling ~ 320
Publications ~ 323
Photography ~ 325
Anonymous dance works ~ 327
Anonymous books ~ 327
Anonymous articles and folios ~ 331
Authored works ~ 332
Allan ~ 332
Anderson ~ 332
Armstrong ~ 333
Baron ~ 333
Beek ~ 334
Bohme ~ 334
Bolze ~ 335
Bonstein ~ 335
Bosshardt-Strübi ~ 335
Busch ~ 336
Carpenter ~ 336
Cartier ~ 337
Chappell ~ 338
Charbonnel ~ 338
Chistjakov ~ 339
Christison ~ 339
Clément ~ 340
Clendenen ~ 340
Cleveland ~ 341
Colles ~ 341
Crompton ~ 341
Czerwinski ~ 342
D’Aquino ~ 343
De’Fiori ~ 343
De Garmo ~ 343
De Soria ~ 344
Desrat ~ 344
Dick ~ 345
Dodworth ~ 346
Élie ~ 347
Elmwell ~ 348
Faulkner ~ 348
Foreman ~ 348
French ~ 349
Gass ~ 349
Gerhardt ~ 349
Gilbert ~ 350
Giraudet ~ 350
Gomme ~ 352
Gott ~ 352
Gould ~ 353
Grangier ~ 353
Grant ~ 353
Greene ~ 353
Grove ~ 354
Grover ~ 354
Harvey ~ 355
Hirschfeld-Böhm ~ 355
Howe ~ 355
Klemm ~ 356
Koncen ~ 356
Kopp ~ 356
Lamb ~ 357
Leggett Byrne ~ 357
Lovenberry ~ 358
Lussan-Borel ~ 358
Mahler ~ 359
Paul ~ 359
Perin ~ 360
Radestock ~ 360
Read ~ 360
Reznicek ~ 361
Richer ~ 361
Rivers ~ 362
Roberts ~ 362
Roseri ~ 362
Rossi ~ 363
Sause ~ 363
Schell ~ 363
Schild ~ 363
Scott ~ 364
Segadlo ~ 365
Sherwood ~ 365
Skinner ~ 365
Stilb ~ 366
T. Erp. Sichore ~ 367
Vestris ~ 367
Vuillier ~ 367
Wallner ~ 368
Wilson ~ 368
Wilson ~ 368
Wivell ~ 368
Zorn ~ 369