A BOX OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
A double CD of 90 tunes (recorded by the band Earthly Delights) in 32 sets to match 32 dances set out (along with notation for the tunes) in the book. For this unique collection, released in 1998, John Garden won a 1998 Canberra Critics Circle Music Award. Status: No longer available, but the contents of this collection has been reworked into The Lost Dances of Earthly Delights and it is this much larger and more complete work we can offer you.

 

THE COUNTRY DANCE COMPANION
121 page book containing 180 dances and 120 tunes from the Monaro Folk Music Society's Country Dance Series (December 1987 to November 1991), compiled and presented by John Garden (who was the chief organiser of and caller of dances in that series in those years). Dances include Renaissance, English Country, French, French-Canadian, New England, Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian style set, together with couples dances such as waltzes, mazurkas, varsoviennas, walking dances, polskas, polkas, galops schottisches and tangos. The book includes both traditional and recently composed material, and notes by John Garden on the history of social dance and organising, programming, playing for and calling for social dances. Published by the Monaro Folk Music Society in 1991. ISBN:0 9594084 2 8 . Status: Out of print but available for viewing at the National Library of Australia. The notes dance history and tips section of this book have evolved into the much more comprehensive notes which we have placed on-line under Dance history and Dance Tips.