CDs and music – The Historical Dance Society

Dances for Queen Victoria – book with 2 CDs

Jane Frost — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:46:04 +0000

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

Jane Frost — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:09:39 +0000

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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Boone Companion – CD

Jane Frost — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:53:24 +0000

The Boone Companion Dances of mid-seventeenth-century England from the Pattricke, Sloane, Lansdowne mss. & Playford Played on instruments of the period by The Granary Musicians directed from the harpsichord by David Gordon The music on this CD has been arranged to accompany 18 dances from three unpublished manuscripts from the mid-seventeenth century : the Pattricke […]

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Music for English Ball Dances 1700 to 1740 – 2 CD Set

Jane Frost — Tue, 03 May 2022 09:53:21 +0000

The style of dance known today as baroque dance, or French noble style, flourished in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, where it was referred to as “French dancing”. The publication in 1700 of the Beauchamp-Feuillet system of dance notation resulted in the preservation of many dances, in print or manuscript, and […]

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Ballare et Danzare: Dances of the Courts of 15th Century Italy – CD

EmilyBowen — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:10:58 +0000

Dances from the Courts of 15th Century Italy This is the accompanying CD for a book written with research by Hazel Dennison, first published in May 2012 and available for purchase separately on the website. The book has the notation for 21 dances of 15th century Italy. Music performed by Mediva, Director Ann Allen. Recorded […]

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Dances of Court and Country – CD

EmilyBowen — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:09:41 +0000

Dances of Court and Country from the time of Elizabeth I and James I Instructions for the dances on this CD marked * can be found in the book Tudors and Stuarts. Instructions for the other dances are in the book Dances of Court and Country. Both of these books are available for purchase on […]

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Cherwell Thy Wyne: Dances from the Gresley Manuscript – CD

EmilyBowen — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:07:03 +0000

Cherwell Thy Wyne: Dances of 15th Century England from the Gresley Manuscript – CD Note that if the download option is selected the CD tracks are supplied as MP3 files. Played by The York Waites. This CD accompanies a dance instruction book by Ann and Paul Kent, which is available for purchase separately on this […]

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