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The collection of Richard Powers
Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance
Chronological listing
78% of the 2,550 sources in my collection are the original editions. 13% are digital scans. 9% are printed facsimile reproductions.
Where dates of publication are not given, dates are estimated. c. = circa.
Most of these primary sources are dance manuals. Stand-alone descriptions of a single dance are noted with » before the title.
Some of these sources from my collection can be downloaded here.
Dancing master and social dance periodicals like Dancing Times and La Danse are included in this listing. Newspaper articles are not. Also not listed are books about theatrical dance, etiquette books, fiction/satire about dance, country and folk dance, secondary sources, and dance histories. Contact me if you would like a listing of my sources in any of those categories (see the bottom of this page).
1885 | A. | Lopes | NOVO METHODO DE DANÇAS DE SALÃO ou o Verdadiero Guia das Danças Modernas | Porto, Portugal | |
1885 | Am. Society of | Professors of Dancing | » SOCIETY QUADRILLE. Description and sheet music. | New York | |
1885 | C.H. | Rivers | A FULL DESCRIPTION OF MODERN DANCES | Brooklyn | |
1885 | Louis | Roland | » ROLAND'S QUICK-STEP. Nouvelle Danse de Salon | Paris | |
1886 | Léopold | Bagnat | » LE CARILLON, DANSE DE SALON | Paris | |
1886 | O.F. "Cub" | Berdan | ONE NIGHT IN A BALL ROOM - CALL BOOK | Detroit, MI | |
1886 | Cartier | CARTIER'S POCKET GUIDE AND CALLS FOR SQUARE DANCES | New York | ||
1886 | Monon | Route, publ. | SOCIAL AMUSEMENTS...& FIGURES AND CALLS FOR DANCING | Chicago | |
1886 | F. | Trifet | TRIFET'S ACME OF DANCES, With Calls and Figures, 114 Dances | Boston | |
c. | 1886 | Fred'k | Warne, publ. | THE BALL-ROOM GUIDE, A HANDY MANUAL | London / NY |
c. | 1887 | Franz | Schrödter | DER TANZMEISTER : eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Anstandsregeln auf Bällen | Reutlingen |
c. | 1887 | Edward | Scott | DANCING AS IT SHOULD BE 1st Edition British Library cataogue dates it to 1887 | London |
1887 | A. | Squire | SQUIRE'S PRACTICAL PROMPTER OR BALL-ROOM CALL BOOK | Cincinnati | |
1887 | Fred'k | Warne & Co. | MODERN ETIQUETTE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE with dance descriptions | London & New York | |
1887 | Friedrich Albert | Zorn | GRAMMATIK DER TANZKUNST, THEORETISCHER UND PRAKTISCHER | Leipzig | |
1888 | Prof. J. F. | Davis | » LE BRONCO, A ROUND DANCE. Description and sheet music. | Boston | |
1888 | Allen | Dodworth | DANCING AND ITS RELATIONS TO EDUCATION AND SOCIAL LIFE | New York | |
1888 | E. W. | Masters | » LA MARJOLAINE. THE NEW SOCIETY DANCE. Description and sheet music. | Boston | |
1888 | Edward | Scott | DANCING AND DANCERS, or, Grace and Folly | London | |
1888 | Two Amateur Leaders | THE GERMAN - HOW TO DANCE IT ©1878 | Chicago | ||
1889 | Lucien O. | Carpenter | J. W. PEPPER'S UNIVERSAL DANCING MASTER, PROMPTER'S CALL BOOK AND VIOLINIST'S GUIDE | Philadelphia | |
1889 | J. S. | Christy | » NOVA SCOTIA, THE NEW ROUND DANCE | Pittsburg | |
1889 | William E. | Greene | THE TERPSICHOREAN MONITOR | Providence, RI | |
1889 | J. H. | Harvey | WEHMAN'S COMPLETE DANCING MASTER AND CALL BOOK | New York | |
1889 | Elias | Howe, publ. | HOWE'S NEW BALL-ROOM GUIDE (copyright 1883) | Boston |
1885 | A. | Lopes | NOVO METHODO DE DANÇAS DE SALÃO ou o Verdadiero Guia das Danças Modernas | Porto, Portugal | |
1885 | Am. Society of | Professors of Dancing | » SOCIETY QUADRILLE. Description and sheet music. | New York | |
1885 | C.H. | Rivers | A FULL DESCRIPTION OF MODERN DANCES | Brooklyn | |
1885 | Louis | Roland | » ROLAND'S QUICK-STEP. Nouvelle Danse de Salon | Paris | |
1886 | Léopold | Bagnat | » LE CARILLON, DANSE DE SALON | Paris | |
1886 | O.F. "Cub" | Berdan | ONE NIGHT IN A BALL ROOM - CALL BOOK | Detroit, MI | |
1886 | Cartier | CARTIER'S POCKET GUIDE AND CALLS FOR SQUARE DANCES | New York | ||
1886 | Monon | Route, publ. | SOCIAL AMUSEMENTS...& FIGURES AND CALLS FOR DANCING | Chicago | |
1886 | F. | Trifet | TRIFET'S ACME OF DANCES, With Calls and Figures, 114 Dances | Boston | |
c. | 1886 | Fred'k | Warne, publ. | THE BALL-ROOM GUIDE, A HANDY MANUAL | London / NY |
c. | 1887 | Franz | Schrödter | DER TANZMEISTER : eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Anstandsregeln auf Bällen | Reutlingen |
c. | 1887 | Edward | Scott | DANCING AS IT SHOULD BE 1st Edition British Library cataogue dates it to 1887 | London |
1887 | A. | Squire | SQUIRE'S PRACTICAL PROMPTER OR BALL-ROOM CALL BOOK | Cincinnati | |
1887 | Fred'k | Warne & Co. | MODERN ETIQUETTE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE with dance descriptions | London & New York | |
1887 | Friedrich Albert | Zorn | GRAMMATIK DER TANZKUNST, THEORETISCHER UND PRAKTISCHER | Leipzig | |
1888 | Prof. J. F. | Davis | » LE BRONCO, A ROUND DANCE. Description and sheet music. | Boston | |
1888 | Allen | Dodworth | DANCING AND ITS RELATIONS TO EDUCATION AND SOCIAL LIFE | New York | |
1888 | E. W. | Masters | » LA MARJOLAINE. THE NEW SOCIETY DANCE. Description and sheet music. | Boston | |
1888 | Edward | Scott | DANCING AND DANCERS, or, Grace and Folly | London | |
1888 | Two Amateur Leaders | THE GERMAN - HOW TO DANCE IT ©1878 | Chicago | ||
1889 | Lucien O. | Carpenter | J. W. PEPPER'S UNIVERSAL DANCING MASTER, PROMPTER'S CALL BOOK AND VIOLINIST'S GUIDE | Philadelphia | |
1889 | J. S. | Christy | » NOVA SCOTIA, THE NEW ROUND DANCE | Pittsburg | |
1889 | William E. | Greene | THE TERPSICHOREAN MONITOR | Providence, RI | |
1889 | J. H. | Harvey | WEHMAN'S COMPLETE DANCING MASTER AND CALL BOOK | New York | |
1889 | Elias | Howe, publ. | HOWE'S NEW BALL-ROOM GUIDE (copyright 1883) | Boston |
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