music Archives – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/tag/music celebrating dance from the 12th to the 20th century Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:06:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://historicaldance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-ms-icon-310x310-1-32x32.png music Archives – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/tag/music 32 32 New Book and CDs: Dances for Queen Victoria https://historicaldance.org.uk/dances-for-queen-victoria-book-with-2-cds Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:26:47 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?p=6145 Dances for Queen Victoria presents a collection of dances that were taught to Queen Victoria’s children by Edinburgh dancing master Joseph Lowe, accompanied with new recordings of the music and new essays that shed light on the collection’s historical context and significance.

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]]> Weekend course: Dance, music and masquing at the court of Elizabeth I https://historicaldance.org.uk/weekend-course-dance-music-and-masquing-at-the-court-of-elizabeth-i Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:36:31 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?p=6054 Friday 16 to Sunday 18 January 2026 at Halsway Manor, west Somerset.
A friendly house-party based on re-creating the Masque of Diana and Actaeon, performed at the court of Elizabeth I. Tutors are Ann Hinchliffe (beginners and improvers), Anne Daye (experienced dancers), and Sam Brown (musicians).

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]]> The Early Dance Circle Conference 2024 https://historicaldance.org.uk/the-early-dance-circle-conference-2024 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:55:59 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?p=5273 The Early Dance Circle (EDC) Biennial Conference will be held 10-12 May 2024. The Conference brings together international specialists on historical dance topics spanning six centuries of dance history. The theme is Recovering Historical Dance.

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]]> New Journal articles: Nathalie Dolmetsch https://historicaldance.org.uk/new-journal-articles-nathalie-dolmetsch Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:24:59 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?p=5028 We have published online in Historical Dance a short piece entitled ‘Music and Movement - Music and Dancing - Dancing, Movement and Music’ by Nathalie Dolmetsch (founder of the Historical Dance Society) that was recently given to HDS by Louise Bailey, her daughter. This is accompanied by a biography of Nathalie Dolmetsch written by Anne Daye.

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]]> Residential weekend: Dance and performance at the Jacobean court https://historicaldance.org.uk/weekend-of-english-court-and-country-dances-around-1600 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:52:25 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?p=4481 Now open for booking

Dance and performance at the Jacobean court

Dances associated with Ben Jonson's masque Hymenaei will be learnt and animated for an in-house performance of the masque on Sunday, with opportunities to sing and play music.

Friday 26 to Sunday 28 January 2024 at Halsway Manor, west Somerset

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]]> Baroque period https://historicaldance.org.uk/baroque-period Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:21:21 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?p=949 A discussion of Baroque dance notation. Louis XIV ordered academicians to invent a notational system to record dances. At least four systems were in progress in the 1680s, one of which, now known as Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, came to disseminate dances of French style across Europe by means of printing/publishing businesses.

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]]> Study Forum 1: Reconstructing Technique – Creating Performance (2013) https://historicaldance.org.uk/reconstructing-technique Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:36:47 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?p=2169 Goldsmiths, University of London, 23-24 March 2013 Two days of practical workshops and presentations, guided by leading researchers, teachers and performers. Due to the practical nature of most of the sessions, the proceedings were not published. One of the papers is available to download Roger Clegg, Lucie Skeaping and Anne Daye – Singing Simpkin and […]

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]]> On Common Ground 5: Dance in Drama, Drama in Dance (2005) https://historicaldance.org.uk/on-common-ground-5 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:41:48 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?p=2140 On Common Ground 5: Dance in Drama, Drama in Dance (2005). Proceedings of the conference.

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]]> On Common Ground 4: The Problems of Reconstruction and Re-creation in Dance (2003) https://historicaldance.org.uk/reconstruction-recreation Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:33:53 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?p=2123 On Common Ground 4: The Problems of Reconstruction and Re-creation in Dance (2003). Proceedings of the conference.

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]]> On Common Ground 3: John Playford and the English Dancing Master (2001) https://historicaldance.org.uk/playford-conference Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:55:01 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?p=2095 On Common Ground 3: John Playford and the English Dancing Master (2001). Proceedings of the conference.

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