Each Volume’s Part 1 (one book) is devoted to dance in general (with period sources in transcription and translations but generally not facsimiles) and is itself divided into Part 1a: Dance context on the social, political and geographic context in which dance was evolving in the relevant period; Part 1b: Dance forms on the nature and evolution of the period’s main categories or types of dance; Part 1c: Dance elements with source-based considerations of style, etiquette, honours, holds, formations, figures and steps; and Part 1d: Dance teaching on the dancing master vocation, developments in notation and publication, teaching methods, calling, and an annotated bibliography of dance-relevant material written in the period.
Each Volume’s Part 2 (two books) is devoted to dances in detail, alphabetically-ordered reconstructions of dances that seem to have had their first recording in the period which is the subject of the Volume. Each dance entry includes a summary box (abbreviated dance figure and step directions), a few words of orientation (starting formation, mechanism and musical structure), music (chorded melody line, with other scores under facsimiles), a reconstruction table (with relevant texts transcribed, translated, tabulated, arranged to match musical phrase, and annotated to improve understanding and offer possible dance calls), notes offering background, identifying problems and suggesting solutions, and facsimiles of as many relevant primary sources as possible.
Book 1 = Book 2, 3 & 4 = Volume I: 1450-1550 Dance and dances in the 15th and early 16th century, the early
renaissance.
Book 5, 6 & 7 = Volume II: 1550-1600 Dance and dances in the late 16th century, the high renaissance, Elizabethan period. Book 8, 9 & 10 = Volume III: 1600-1650 Dance and dances in the early 17th century, the late renaissance, early baroque cavalier period. Book 11, 12 & 13 = Volume IV: 1650-1700 Dance and dance in the late 17th
century, the baroque, restoration, Louis XIV Versailles period. Book 14, 15 & 16 = Volume V: 1700-1750 Dance and dance in the early 18th
century, the late baroque, early rococo period. Book 17, 18 & 19 = Volume VI: 1750-1800 Dance and dance in the the late 18th
century, mid-Georgian, late rococo period, Age of Enlightenment period. Dance and dance in the
the first quarter of the 19th century, the Napoleonic, Jane Austen, Regency period. Dance and dance in the
2nd quarter of the 19th century, the early-Victorian, Biedermeier period. Book 26, 27 & 28 = Volume IX: 1850-1875 Dance and dance in the
the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, the mid-Victorian, Second Empire, period. Dance and dance in the last quarter of the 19th century,
the late-Victorian, Belle Époche period.
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