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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).
1824 | Thomas | Wilson | THE DANCIAD, OR DANCER'S MONITOR | London | |
c. | 1825 | Anon. | » THE TWELFTH SET OF QUADRILLES, to music by P. Musard | London | |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S EIGHTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, elected from Meyerbeer's Il Crociato In Egito | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S FOURTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from Carl Maria Von Weber's drama Preciosa | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S CELEBRATED LANCIERS SET OF QUADRILLES, ARRANGED AS DUETS. Description and sheet music. | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S SIXTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S FIFTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, or Second Set selected from Weber's Der Freischutz | London |
1825 | G. | Riebe | TANZE MIT MUSIK | Berlin | |
1825 | Charles T. | Sykes | » LA DANSOMANIE. A POPULAR SET OF QUADRILLES, with entire New Figures in French and English | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in original boards) | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in leather binding from the period) | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in newer library binding) | London | |
c. | 1825 | John Charles | White | » GUY MANNERING QUADRILLES, WHITE'S 52nd SET | London |
1825 | W. H. | Woakes | AN ESSAY ON THE ATTITUDES DERIVED FROM GESTURE TO BE ATTENDED TO IN DANCING | Hereford, England | |
1825 | Людовик | Петровский (Petrovsky) | ПРАВИЛА ДЛЯ БЛАГОРОДНЫХ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫХ ТАНЦЕВ (RULES FOR NOBLE SOCIAL DANCES) | Kharkiv | |
1826 | T. | B. | THE EXTRAORDINARY DANCE BOOK T B. 1826 | Wellington Ms | |
1826 | Louis | Casorti | DER INSTRUCTIVE TANZMEISTER FÜR HERREN UND DAMEN | Almenau | |
c. | 1826 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S TWENTIETH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from the favorite operas of Carl Maria von Weber | London |
1826 | G. | Riebe | TANZE MIT MUSIK | Berlin | |
1827 | Anon. | ТЕРПСИХОРА. АЛЬМАНАХ МУЗЫКИ И ТАНЦЕВ (TERPSICHORE. ALMANAC OF MUSIC AND DANCE) | Moscow | ||
1827 | E. H. | Conway | LE MAITRE DE DANSE, OR THE ART OF DANCING COTILLONS | New York | |
c. | 1827 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S MUCH ADMIRED EIGHTH SET OF SCOTCH QUADRILLES | London |
1827 | Jorgen Gad | Lund | TERPSICHORE, ELLER EN VEILEDNING FOR MINE DANDSE-ELEVER | Slagelse, Denmark | |
1827 | Charles | Mason | A SHORT ESSAY ON THE FRENCH DANSE DE SOCIÉTÉ | London | |
c. | 1827 | James | Paine | » PAINE'S CELEBRATED SET OF QUADRILLES. This is the first of Paine's second series of quadrilles. | London |
1824 | Thomas | Wilson | THE DANCIAD, OR DANCER'S MONITOR | London | |
c. | 1825 | Anon. | » THE TWELFTH SET OF QUADRILLES, to music by P. Musard | London | |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S EIGHTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, elected from Meyerbeer's Il Crociato In Egito | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S FOURTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from Carl Maria Von Weber's drama Preciosa | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S CELEBRATED LANCIERS SET OF QUADRILLES, ARRANGED AS DUETS. Description and sheet music. | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S SIXTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe | London |
c. | 1825 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S FIFTEENTH SET OF QUADRILLES, or Second Set selected from Weber's Der Freischutz | London |
1825 | G. | Riebe | TANZE MIT MUSIK | Berlin | |
1825 | Charles T. | Sykes | » LA DANSOMANIE. A POPULAR SET OF QUADRILLES, with entire New Figures in French and English | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in original boards) | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in leather binding from the period) | London | |
1825 | Thomas | Tegg, publ. | ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON BALL-ROOM (in newer library binding) | London | |
c. | 1825 | John Charles | White | » GUY MANNERING QUADRILLES, WHITE'S 52nd SET | London |
1825 | W. H. | Woakes | AN ESSAY ON THE ATTITUDES DERIVED FROM GESTURE TO BE ATTENDED TO IN DANCING | Hereford, England | |
1825 | Людовик | Петровский (Petrovsky) | ПРАВИЛА ДЛЯ БЛАГОРОДНЫХ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫХ ТАНЦЕВ (RULES FOR NOBLE SOCIAL DANCES) | Kharkiv | |
1826 | T. | B. | THE EXTRAORDINARY DANCE BOOK T B. 1826 | Wellington Ms | |
1826 | Louis | Casorti | DER INSTRUCTIVE TANZMEISTER FÜR HERREN UND DAMEN | Almenau | |
c. | 1826 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S TWENTIETH SET OF QUADRILLES, selected from the favorite operas of Carl Maria von Weber | London |
1826 | G. | Riebe | TANZE MIT MUSIK | Berlin | |
1827 | Anon. | ТЕРПСИХОРА. АЛЬМАНАХ МУЗЫКИ И ТАНЦЕВ (TERPSICHORE. ALMANAC OF MUSIC AND DANCE) | Moscow | ||
1827 | E. H. | Conway | LE MAITRE DE DANSE, OR THE ART OF DANCING COTILLONS | New York | |
c. | 1827 | Joseph | Hart | » HART'S MUCH ADMIRED EIGHTH SET OF SCOTCH QUADRILLES | London |
1827 | Jorgen Gad | Lund | TERPSICHORE, ELLER EN VEILEDNING FOR MINE DANDSE-ELEVER | Slagelse, Denmark | |
1827 | Charles | Mason | A SHORT ESSAY ON THE FRENCH DANSE DE SOCIÉTÉ | London | |
c. | 1827 | James | Paine | » PAINE'S CELEBRATED SET OF QUADRILLES. This is the first of Paine's second series of quadrilles. | London |
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