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Book/Printed Material The complete system of English country dancing, containing all the figures ever used in English country dancing, with a variety of new figures, and new reels

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Title

  • The complete system of English country dancing, containing all the figures ever used in English country dancing, with a variety of new figures, and new reels

Summary

  • Originally published in 1808 and expanded in 1811 under the title An analysis of country dancing, this edition borrows extensively from earlier editions. As with earlier editions, the figures for English country dances are explained through text, tables, and diagrams. Performed as a series of figures danced by a column of men facing a column of women, the English country dance was one of the most popular early nineteenth-century ballroom dances. This edition contains an extensive discussion on music with ten musical examples scored for a treble instrument.

Names

  • Wilson, Thomas, dancing master

Created / Published

  • London, Sherwood, Neeley and Jones [1815?]

Headings

  • -  Country dancing--England--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Music for Dance
  • -  Notation for Dance

Notes

  • -  Contains music.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • 1 p.l., [v]-xxvii, 339 p. front., fold. tab., diagrs. (part fold.) 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1763 .W74

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05029718

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Wilson, Thomas, Dancing Master. The complete system of English country dancing, containing all the figures ever used in English country dancing, with a variety of new figures, and new reels. [London, Sherwood, Neeley and Jones ?, 1815] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05029718/.

APA citation style:

Wilson, T. (1815) The complete system of English country dancing, containing all the figures ever used in English country dancing, with a variety of new figures, and new reels. [London, Sherwood, Neeley and Jones ?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05029718/.

MLA citation style:

Wilson, Thomas, Dancing Master. The complete system of English country dancing, containing all the figures ever used in English country dancing, with a variety of new figures, and new reels. [London, Sherwood, Neeley and Jones ?, 1815] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05029718/>.