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Author (real name):
Title:
Second Set of New Quadrilles, Performed at Almacks, Argyll Rooms, &c. by Messrs. Michau, Musard & Collinet. Dedicated to the Ladies, Subscribers to Almacks
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
June 18, 2017
Source:
_problems.bib:0680
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1819?
Publisher:
Chappel & Company
Place of publication:
London
Keywords:
music, dance description, dance description: short, quadrille, quadrille: first set, tempo, tempo: malzel
URL:
Note:
Dated circa 1819 by archive.org
Author (real name):
Title:
Douze walses pour le pianoforté dédiée à mademoiselle Angèse Rauch
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
May 7, 2016
Source:
french.bib:8390
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1826–1830?
Plate number:
372
Place of publication:
Leipzig
Series:
Danses modernes et brillantes
Serial number:
3
Keywords:
URL:
- /books/reissiger_1826_walses/pdf/1 (14.4 MB)
Note:
Courtesy of the Russian State Library. Dating is basen on opus number. Op. 46 is between Op. 40 and Op. 50
Author (real name):
Title:
Les coquettes. Quadrilles de contredanses brillantes et variées avec une grande valse pour le piano-forte
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 23, 2015
Source:
french.bib:8448
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1828?
Publisher:
J. Ricordi
Place of publication:
Milan
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
An advert in the "Harmonicon" for April 1828 describes Herz's Les Élégances on Contre-danses variées publication as "new"
Author (real name):
Title:
The Redowa Waltz. A New Bohemian Waltz as Danced in the Parisian Saloons and Taught by Monsieur Jules Martin
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
March 22, 2015
Source:
american.bib:3937
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1848?
Publisher:
A. Fiot, W. Dubois
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, New York
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
Publication date and author are listed at IMSLP
Author (real name):
Title:
La bohême
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9237
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1849
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10250R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №1
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to mademoiselle Vera Samoilova, who got married in 1853.
Author (real name):
Title:
La cracovienne
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9256
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1849
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10251R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №2
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to Amata Lvoff (probably Амата Львова), but no person with this name is known.
Author (real name):
Title:
Martinoff polka
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9522
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1850
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10265R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №16
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to Alexandre Martinoff.
Author (real name):
Title:
Militaire polka
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9351
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1850
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10256R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №7
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to la baronne Elisabeth de Budberg, daughter of Bogdan Budberg.
Author (real name):
Title:
Polka tremblante
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9560
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1850
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10267R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №18
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to madame la general Pauline de Lvoff, but no person with this name is known (nor there is a general Lvoff who was alive in 1850).
Author (real name):
Title:
Poëme polka
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
November 25, 2017
Source:
french.bib:9313
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1850
Publisher:
S. Richault
Plate number:
10254R
Place of publication:
Paris
Series:
Collection de polkas et mazurkas caractéristiques par Viktor Kaźyński
Serial number:
Polkas №5
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
BNF provided copy is a convolute of 18 polkas and 3 mazurkas. Dated according to the library stamp on the title page. Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin.
Author (real name):
Title:
L'art de composer et d'exécuter la musique légère. Quadrille, valse, polka, polka mazurka, redowa, schottisch, sicilienne
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
August 8, 2020
Source:
french.bib:9725
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1852–1853?
Publisher:
Bureau centrale
Plate number:
BC1275
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
music, tempo, tempo: malzel, tempo: italian, waltz, mazurka, schottische, redowa, quadrille, quadrille: first set, sequence
URL:
Note:
Dated 1852 by the library and listed in Bibliographie de la France for 1853.
Author (real name):
Author (pseudonym):
Title:
Le tango. Nouvelle danse de salon
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 6, 2016
Source:
french.bib:9861
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1854
Plate number:
SStE723
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
URL:
Transcription:
Note:
Dating of the edition is listed here. Markowski (sometimes spelled as Markowsky) is believed to be a pseudonym of Maurice Mayer (sometimes just Maurice), according to various publications from 10.09.1857, 16.09.1857, 1864, 1867, 07.08.1868, 05.10.1873. He is said to have taken Markowski as his pseudonym in two post-mortem publications from 14.04.1884 and 16.04.1884, where he is named Joseph Mayer, le petit juif de Posen, the jew of Polish origin.
Author (real name):
Title:
Grand galop brillant pour piano dédié à madame Emilie Bornemann
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
March 13, 2015
Source:
french.bib:9848
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1854
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Polka Caprice for the Piano-forte
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
March 13, 2015
Source:
american.bib:6158
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1884
Publisher:
The United States Music Engraving & Printing Company
Place of publication:
Philadelphia
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
L'art de composer et d'exécuter la musique légère. Quadrille, valse, polka, polka mazurka, redowa, schottisch, sicilienne
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
August 8, 2020
Source:
french.bib:10961
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1887?
Publisher:
E. Fromont
Plate number:
EF2
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
music, tempo, tempo: malzel, tempo: italian, waltz, mazurka, schottische, redowa, quadrille, quadrille: first set, sequence
URL:
Note:
Reprinted from the same plates, as the 1852 edition [Marcailhou, 1852–1853?].
Author (real name):
Title:
Majestic Polonaise
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
March 22, 2015
Source:
american.bib:6431
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1892
Publisher:
Lyon & Healy
Place of publication:
Chicago
Keywords:
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Cream City Minuet. New and Novel
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
November 21, 2015
Source:
american.bib:1502
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1894
Publisher:
A. C. Wirth
Place of publication:
Milwaukee
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:
Author (real name):
Title:
The Netherland. Latest Society Dance with Description. Adopted by the American Society of Professors of Dancing, New York, at the 23d Annual Convention Held in New York City, September 8-99
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
July 22, 2015
Source:
american.bib:1558
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1899
Publisher:
White-Smith Music Publishing Company
Place of publication:
Boston, New York, Chicago
Keywords:
URL:
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:
Décadence. Valse-menuet „в духе времени”. Новый салонный танец составленный и введённый в г. Одессе
Language:
Russian
Id:
Added to database:
August 12, 2017
Source:
russian.bib:1485
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1901
Place of publication:
Одесса
Keywords:
Author (real name):
Title:
Бальный менуэт. Танец
Language:
Russian
Id:
Added to database:
April 19, 2015
Source:
russian.bib:2863
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1905–1918?
Plate number:
А23Ц
Place of publication:
Moсква
Keywords:
URL:
Note:
No censor's mark – 1905+, old spelling used – 1918-
Author (real name):
Title:
Новый бальный танец „Русско-славянский”
Language:
Russian
Id:
Added to database:
February 1, 2015
Source:
russian.bib:2894
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1905–1918?
Plate number:
А8Ц
Place of publication:
Moсква
Keywords:
URL:
- /books/zarman_1905_russlav/pdf/1 (14.3 MB)
Note:
No censor's mark – 1905+, old spelling used – 1918-
Author (real name):
Title:
The Gobbler. Turkey Trot
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 28, 2016
Source:
american.bib:7152
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1912
Publisher:
The Boston Music Company
Plate number:
BMCO3311
Place of publication:
Boston
Keywords:
music, tempo, tempo: malzel, dance description, dance description: short, animal dance, animal dance: turkey trot
URL:
Title:
Description of Modern Dances as Standardized by the New York Society Teachers of Dancing and Approved by the Congress of Dancing Society of America at Meeting held December 27th, 194, in New York City, N. Y
Language:
English
Id:
Added to database:
January 29, 2016
Source:
american.bib:7768
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
January, 1915
Publisher:
American National Association “Masters of Dancing”
Place of publication:
New York
Keywords:
dance description, tempo, tempo: malzel, one-step, waltz, waltz: hesitation, maxixe, animal dance, animal dance: fox trot, tango
URL:
Author (real name):
Title:
Le vrai Five Step
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 2, 2016
Source:
french.bib:11891
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1924
Publisher:
Francis Salabert
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
Author (real name):
Title:
Butterfly. Nouveau Five Step
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 2, 2016
Source:
french.bib:11904
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1924
Publisher:
Francis Salabert
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
Author (real name):
Author (pseudonym):
Title:
Le Zorizico. Five Step
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 2, 2016
Source:
french.bib:11917
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1925
Publisher:
Heugel
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords:
Note:
Title page says that the music is composed by “Trémolo”. This is probably a pseudonym
Author (real name):
Title:
Cinq pas. Five Step
Language:
French
Id:
Added to database:
February 2, 2016
Source:
french.bib:11932
Entry type:
Book
Date of publication:
1925
Publisher:
Louis Aerts
Place of publication:
Paris
Keywords: