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Title:
Old Reels and Dance Tunes and Old Yorkshire Tunes
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 25, 2014
Source:
english.bib:3896
Entry type:
Manuscript
Date of publication:
1700–1800?
Holding library:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Library location:
London
Library call number:
9723
Keywords:
music, folk dance, waltz, longway, longway: money musk, quadrille, quadrille: lancers, sir roger de coverly
URL:
Title:
VWML ms3049
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 25, 2014
Source:
english.bib:3852
Entry type:
Manuscript
Date of publication:
1700–1800?
Holding library:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Library location:
London
Library call number:
3049
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Thompson's Compleat Collection of 120 Favourite Hornpipes as Performed at the Public Theatres
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 22, 2015
Source:
english.bib:1362
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1775?
Place of publication:
London
Keywords:
Note:
British Library copy has handwritten music instead of white back sides.
Author (real name):
Title:
9e recueil de 20 contredanses françaises composées pour le Wauxhal d'été. Avec un choix des plus jolies walser, anglaise, bernoises, la petite et grande cosaque, pas-russe, l'ecossoise, cosaque, polonoise, et chica danse des negres
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
October 19, 2016
Source:
french.bib:7729
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1795?
Publisher:
Frere
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
music, dance description, dance description: short, quadrille, longway, longway: money musk, folk dance, folk dance: country bumpkin, waltz
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Robert Harrison Manuscript
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
August 18, 2013
Source:
english.bib:4860
Entry type:
Manuscript
Date of publication:
1800–1900?
Place of publication:
Penrith
Holding library:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Library location:
London
Library call number:
18473
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
Content is lister at Folkopedia
Author (real name):
Title:
The Treasures of Terpsichore; or, a Companion for the Ball-room. Being a Collection of All the Most Popular English Country Dances, Arranged Alphabetically, with Proper Figures to Each Dance Together with All the New Dances for 1809
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
October 25, 2014
Source:
english.bib:2223
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1809
Publisher:
W. Calvert
Place of publication:
London
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Tune Book
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
October 25, 2014
Source:
_problems.bib:0821
Entry type:
Manuscript
Date of publication:
1837
Place of publication:
Wellington
Holding library:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Library location:
London
Library call number:
4494
Keywords:
music, march, folk dance, waltz, longway, longway: money musk, quadrille, quadrille: lancers, quadrille: first set
URL:
Note:
Pages 87, 88, 104 are missing
Title:
Companion to the Reticule Arranged for the Piano Forte
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
March 27, 2015
Source:
english.bib:6629
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1840?
Place of publication:
London
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
VWML copy resolution is somewhat low. Use NLS copy (available through archive.org) to get to copy of higher resolution.
Author (real name):
Title:
The Old English Country Dances, as Performed at the Court and Nobilities Balls. Arranged for the Piano Forte
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
November 18, 2015
Source:
english.bib:6812
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1843?
Publisher:
D'Almain & Company
Place of publication:
London
Keywords:
music, dance description, dance description: short, longway, longway: money musk, sir roger de coverly
URL:
Note:
Dated 1843 by the library
Title:
The New England Musician; Containing Five Setts of Quadrilles, a Collection of Contra Dances, Waltzes, Marches, and One Sett of Voice Quadrilles; All Arranges for Four Instruments: Namely, Violin, Clarinet, Post-horn or Cornet, and Orphicleide
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 28, 2016
Source:
american.bib:4004
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1848
Publisher:
B. H. Shepard & Company
Place of publication:
Lowell
Keywords:
URL:
Title:
Tune Book
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
September 22, 2012
Source:
english.bib:7150
Entry type:
Manuscript
Date of publication:
1850?
Holding library:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Library location:
London
Library call number:
9725
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Howe's Drawing-Room Dances Especially Designed for Social Evening Parties; Containing All the Popular and Fashionable Quadrilles, Cotillons, Fancy Dances, Contra Dances, &c. with Every Variety of the Latest and Most Approved Figures and Calls for the Different Changes. Music Arranged for the Piano-Forte
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 5, 2015
Source:
american.bib:0946
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1859
Publisher:
Oliver Ditson & Company
Place of publication:
Boston
Keywords:
music, dance description, quadrille, quadrille: lancers, quadrille: caledonians, redowa, polka, virginia reel, polka-mazurka, sequence, schottische, galop, longway, longway: money musk, rustic reel, tempete, longway: pop goes the weasel, spanish dance
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Howe's Fifty Contra Dances. Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs, &c. with Calls and Figures. Arranged for the Piano or Organ
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
July 22, 2015
Source:
american.bib:1056
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1870–1895?
Publisher:
Elias Howe
Place of publication:
Boston
Keywords:
music, dance description, longway, longway: money musk, redowa, circle, longway: pop goes the weasel, tempete, sir roger de coverly, spanish dance, polka-mazurka, sequence
URL:
Note:
Elias Howe didn't published his books himself up to 1870 or so. Elias Howe died in 1895
Title:
How to Dance; A Complete Ball-room and Party Guide. Containing All the Latest Figures, Together with Old-fashioned and Contra Dances Now in General Use. Also, a Guide to Ballroom Etiquette, Toilets, and General Useful Information for Dancers
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 22, 2014
Source:
american.bib:5875
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1878
Publisher:
Tousey and Small
Place of publication:
New York
Keywords:
dance description, quadrille, quadrille: first set, quadrille: promiscuous figures, quadrille: lancers, waltz, waltz: trois temps, sequence, schottische, galop, redowa, polka-mazurka, cotillon: 19th century, longway, longway: pop goes the weasel, circle, rustic reel, longway: money musk, quadrille: london polka quadrille, tempete, mazurka, tango
URL:
Title:
Squire's Practical Prompter; or, Ball Room Call Book in Three Parts, Giving in Full Every Variety of the Most Approved Figures and Calls for the Different Changes
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
June 5, 2016
Source:
_problems.bib:0900
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1887?
Publisher:
A. Squire
Place of publication:
Cincinnati
Keywords:
dance description, quadrille, quadrille: first set, quadrille: lancers, polka, quadrille: prince imperial, quadrille: caledonians, circle, longway, longway: money musk, virginia reel, longway: pop goes the weasel, cotillon: 19th century
URL:
Note:
Dated circa 1887 by Richard Powers. Scans provided by Richard Powers lack pp. 20, 21 and 54
Title:
Money Musk, Speed the Plow, Rustic Reel, Chorus Jig
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
September 26, 2015
Source:
american.bib:6375
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1890?
Publisher:
Hitchcock & McCargo
Place of publication:
New York
Series:
Good Old-fashioned Tunes with the Original Calls for Dancing
Serial number:
2
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
The American Prompter and Guide to Etiquette
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
April 21, 2012
Source:
american.bib:6717
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1896
Publisher:
The John Church Company
Place of publication:
Cincinnati
Keywords:
etiquette, dance description, march, tempo, tempo: malzel, quadrille, quadrille: first set, quadrille: promiscuous figures, quadrille: lancers, quadrille: caledonians, quadrille: varietes parisiennes, mazurka, tempete, longway, circle, longway: money musk, virginia reel, cotillon: 19th century, sequence
URL:
Title:
Gems of the Ball Room Call Book for the Professional and Amateur Prompter Containing a Large Variety of Plain Quadrilles, Prairie Queens, Lancers, Waltz Quadrilles, and Fancy Quadrilles, Contra Dances, etc. Writter for and Adapted to “Gems of the Ball Room”, All Numbers; “Beauties of the Ball Room”, All Numbers; and “Favorite Dance Albums”, All Numbers; Also Other Popular Music
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
July 16, 2015
Source:
american.bib:6744
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1898
Publisher:
E. T. Root & Sons
Place of publication:
Chicago
Keywords:
dance description, quadrille, quadrille: first set, galop, redowa, polka, waltz, quadrille: lancers, quadrille: prince imperial, quadrille: caledonians, circle, longway, longway: money musk, spanish dance, virginia reel, tempete, longway: pop goes the weasel
Author (real name):
Title:
Fashionable Quadrille Call Book and Guide to Etiquette
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
July 22, 2015
Source:
american.bib:6784
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1899
Publisher:
Charles Himmelman & Company
Place of publication:
Chicago
Keywords:
etiquette, dance description, march, quadrille, quadrille: first set, quadrille: lancers, minuet, waltz, polka, quadrille: varietes parisiennes, virginia reel, longway, longway: money musk, cotillon: 19th century, tempo, tempo: malzel
URL:
Note:
This is a reissue of [Clendenen, 1895], but edition number is unknown
Author (real name):
Title:
Complete Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master. Containing a Full List of Calls for All the Latest Square Dances, Including Many of the Old Ones, with Measures of Time and Steps Required. Also a Complete Instructor and Guide to Every Known Round Dance, Figures for the German, Etiquette of the Ball-room, etc.
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
June 13, 2016
Source:
american.bib:6894
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1902
Publisher:
Frederick J. Drake & Company
Place of publication:
Chicago
Keywords:
etiquette, dance description, quadrille, quadrille: first set, quadrille: lancers, longway, longway: money musk, quadrille: varietes parisiennes, cotillon: 19th century, spanish dance, circle, sir roger de coverly, virginia reel, polka, sequence, schottische, galop, polka-mazurka, redowa, waltz, waltz: boston
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Dance Manual 61
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
September 18, 2015
Source:
american.bib:7933
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1920–1930?
Publisher:
Zimmerman Print
Place of publication:
Cincinatti
Keywords:
music, dance description, quadrille, longway, longway: pop goes the weasel, virginia reel, quadrille: lancers, quadrille: contredanse, longway: money musk, polka, sequence, schottische, polka-mazurka
URL:
Note:
Title page is missing in archive.org provided copy. Metadata restored from WorldCat page
