Best sellers – 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directed from the harpsichord by David Gordon The music on this CD has been arranged to accompany 18 dances from three unpublished manuscripts from the mid-seventeenth century : the Pattricke […]

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New Worlds New Steps – downloadable book with 2 CDs

Jane Frost — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:59:44 +0000

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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Dances of Fashionable Society – book with 2 CDs

Jane Frost — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:15:54 +0000

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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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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La Belle Dance – Book and CD

Jane Frost — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:50:17 +0000

La Belle Dance – Essential Dances from Court and Theatre in Early Eighteenth Century France and England This book, by Kimiko Okamoto, contains 21 notations of ballroom and simple theatre dances from the Baroque period, together with their accompanying music. The book is designed as a Baroque dance primer. It has an introduction which provides […]

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A New Collection of Dances for Jane Austen – book with 2 CDs

EmilyBowen — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:33:02 +0000

A New Collection of Dances for Jane Austen is an instruction and information book by Anne Daye with recorded music for dance practice by the Austen Allegros (directed by Ian Cutts). The book has 149 pages, with 15 country dances, 10 cotillons, a set of quadrilles, a section on waltzing, a minuet, and a strathspey. […]

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Ballare et Danzare: Dance Music of 15th Century Italy – CD

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

Ballare et Danzare: Dance Music of 15th Century Italy This is a must-have collectible CD for early musicians and historical dancers, with high quality recordings of 21 dance tunes from the courts of 15th century Italy. The CD is also available in a package with the book Ballare et Danzare, written with research by Hazel […]

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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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