Books – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/product-category/book celebrating dance from the 12th to the 20th century Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:35:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historicaldance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-ms-icon-310x310-1-32x32.png Books – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/product-category/book 32 32 Dances for Queen Victoria – book with 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-for-queen-victoria-book-with-2-cds Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:46:04 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=6050 Dances for Queen Victoria Music and instructions for country dances, quadrilles, polka, schottische and reels by Joseph Lowe, dancing master to the royal family   This publication makes available to dancers today a collection of dances that were taught to Queen Victoria’s children, accompanied with new recordings of the music and new essays that shed […]

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]]> Dances of the French Courts – book with CD https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-the-french-courts-book-with-cd https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-the-french-courts-book-with-cd#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:09:39 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5858 Dances of the French Courts: 16th century Dance, Music and Songs from France Dances of the French Courts is a collection of dances and their music from the reign of François I (1515-1547) to that of the young Louis XIII in 1614. It offers a range of dances from the easiest to the most challenging […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-the-french-courts-book-with-cd/feed 0 Boone Companion – Book https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-boone-companion https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-boone-companion#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:25:52 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5851 The Boone Companion Dances of mid-seventeenth-century England from the Pattricke, Sloane, Lansdowne manuscripts & Playford The first 18 dances in this book have been selected from three unpublished manuscripts dating from the mid-seventeenth century : the Pattricke (Lovelace) ms. (Pattricke MSEng 1356) the Sloane ms. (MS Sloane 3858) the Lansdowne ms. (MS Lansdowne 1115) There […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-boone-companion/feed 0 Il Ballarino: Italian Dances from Caroso, Lupi and Negri c.1600 – Book https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/__trashed https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/__trashed#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:42:12 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5546 Italian Dances from Caroso, Lupi and Negri c.1600 Second edition 2017. This 58 page book was originally published as Quest’ Arte Gentile for our Summer School in 1986. The dance research is by Anne Daye, and the music was researched by Diana Porteus and Jeremy Barlow. Contents: 1. Allegrezza d’Amore, 2. Celeste Giglio, 3. Alta […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/__trashed/feed 0 New Worlds New Steps – downloadable book with 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/new-worlds-new-steps-downloadable-book-with-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/new-worlds-new-steps-downloadable-book-with-2-cds#respond Tue, 07 May 2024 20:59:44 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5331 Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks as MP3 files. Book contents The 122 page book is in two sections, each containing an introduction, dance descriptions and music notations: Dances from Europe, researched by Ellis and Christine Rogers (Dances 1-10, corresponding to CD1) Dances from America 1790-1867, researched by […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/new-worlds-new-steps-downloadable-book-with-2-cds/feed 0 Excellent New Dances: dances of court and country c.1699 – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:28:42 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5023 Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. Book contents The book was researched from original sources for the DHDS Summmer School in 1999. It contains 106 pages in two sections, each section including introductions, step descriptions, dance descriptions […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds/feed 0 For the Further Improvement of Dancing (1680-1725) – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:42:29 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=4971 Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. The book of 122 pages is in three sections, researched and prepared by Anne Daye, Jørgen Schou-Pedersen and Dorothée Wortelboer respectively, for the DHDS summer school in 2002. The first section […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds/feed 0 Dances of Fashionable Society – book with 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-fashionable-society-book-with-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-fashionable-society-book-with-2-cds#respond Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:15:54 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=4667 The material in this book was researched by Ellis Rogers, assisted by Christine Rogers. It was originally prepared for their teaching at the Historical Dance Society’s summer schools in 1997, 2001 and 2004. For this new book they have re-visited the dances and selected Ellis’s favourites. The hope is that they will enthuse dancers to […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-of-fashionable-society-book-with-2-cds/feed 0 Princely Masques and Revels: dancing and the Stuart Masque – Downloadable book and CD https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/princely-masques-and-revels-dancing-and-the-stuart-masque-downloadable-book-and-cd https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/princely-masques-and-revels-dancing-and-the-stuart-masque-downloadable-book-and-cd#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:08:19 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=4284 Princely Masques and Revels: dancing and the Stuart Masque Available as digital download only.  Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. Book and CD compiled for the 1991 Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Summer School, which explored the masque Oberon (1611). The 82 page book […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/princely-masques-and-revels-dancing-and-the-stuart-masque-downloadable-book-and-cd/feed 0 From Rout to Regency – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/from-rout-to-regency-dances-for-the-fashionable-assembly-in-britain-and-europe-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/from-rout-to-regency-dances-for-the-fashionable-assembly-in-britain-and-europe-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:51:14 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3850 From Rout to Regency: Dances for the Fashionable Assembly in Britain and Europe Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. The 122 page book is in three sections. Section 1 (dances 1-15) contains late eighteenth-century ballroom dances researched […]

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