Sources
A list of historical sources, with links to where they can be found online where they exist. The focus here is on the era of the Dancing Master, but many later sources are included as they're informative or simply interesting.
In addition to the links listed for each source, the following general links are useful for the Dancing Master:
- The Keller database: facsimilies of every dance (albeit low-res) and extensive indexing
- IMSLP facsimilie of many editions
Other online lists of sources:
- The library of dance: a list of pretty much any book related to dancing.
- Regency dances: a great collection of sources from the 18th century onwards.
- Evgenia Solenikova's index (in Russian).
| Source | Date | Title | Online source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephens | 1640 ca. | BL MS Add 41996 F (The ‘Stephens’ manuscript) | Transcript (local) |
| Lovelace | 1649 ca. | Houghton MS Eng 1356 (The ‘Lovelace’, or ‘Pattricke’, or ‘Church’ manuscript) | Facsimile, Transcript (verbose), Transcript (concise) |
| DM1-1 | 1651 | The English Dancing Master, 1st edition | Facsimile, Transcript |
| DM1-2 | 1652 | The Dancing Master, 2nd edition | Transcript |
| DM1-3 | 1657, 1665 | The Dancing Master, 3rd edition | |
| Ward | 1660 or later | Houghton GV1763 .S73 1650 (The ‘Ward’ manuscript) | Facsimile, Transcript (local) |
| Boys | 1667 | Bodleian MS. Don. e. 251 (The ‘Boys’ manuscript) | Transcript (local) |
| DM1-4 | 1670 | The Dancing Master, 4th edition | |
| Lansdowne | 1670 or later | BL MS Lansdowne 1115 (The ‘Lansdowne’ manuscript) | Transcript (local), Facsimile (local) |
| DM1-5 | 1675 | The Dancing Master, 5th edition | |
| DM1-6 | 1679 | The Dancing Master, 6th edition | |
| Sloane | 1679 or later | BL MS Sloane 3858 (The ‘Sloane’ manuscript) | Transcript (local), Transcript (alternative), Facsimile (local) |
| Lorin 1685 | 1685 | Livre de contredance | Facsimile |
| DM1-7 | 1686 | The Dancing Master, 7th edition | |
| Academy of Armory | 1688 | The Third Book of the Academy of Armory and Blazon | Transcript |
| Lorin 1688 | 1688 | Livre de la contredance du roy, présenté à Louis XIV | Facsimile |
| DM1-8 | 1690 | The Dancing Master, 8th edition | |
| DM1-9 | 1695 | The Dancing Master, 9th edition | |
| DM1-10 | 1698 | The Dancing Master, 10th edition | |
| Bray | 1699 | [20 country dances, untitled] | Facsimile |
| Durlach | 1701 | Chorégraphie - Durlach 209/210 | Facsimile |
| DM1-11 | 1701 | The Dancing Master, 11th edition | |
| DM1-12 | 1703 | The Dancing Master, 12th edition | |
| DM1-13 | 1706 | The Dancing Master, 13th edition | |
| Feuillet 1706 | 1706 | Recueil de Contredances mises en Chorégraphie | Facsimile |
| Feuillet 1708 | 1708 | VIe Recueil de danses et de contredanses pour l'année 1708 recueillies et mises au jour | Facsimile |
| DM1-14 | 1709 | The Dancing Master, 14th edition | |
| Essex | 1710 | For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing | Facsimile |
| DM2-1 | 1710 | The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, 1st Edition | |
| Pemberton | 1711 | An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing: Being a Collection of Figure Dances | Facsimile |
| Dezais | 1712 | Recueil de Nouvelles Contredanses | Facsimile |
| DM1-15 | 1713 | The Dancing Master, 15th edition | |
| DM2-2 | 1714 | The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, 2nd Edition | |
| Academy of Compliments | 1715 (4ed) | A new Academy of Compliments: or, the Lover's Secretary | Facsimile (17ed 1784) |
| DM1-16 | 1716 | The Dancing Master, 16th edition | |
| DM2-3 | 1718 | The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, 3rd Edition | |
| Woolball | 1719 | Houghton TS 552.15.14.6. (The William Woolball Manuscript) | Facsimile |
| DM1-17 | 1721 | The Dancing Master Vol. the First, 17th edition | |
| Tomlinson | 1724 | The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures: Whereby the Manner of Performing the Steps is Made Easy by a New and Familiar Method | Facsimile |
| DM3-2 | 1726 ca. | The Dancing Master, The Third Volume, 2nd Edition | |
| DM2-4 | 1728 | The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, 4th Edition | Facsimile |
| DM1-18 | 1728 ca. | The Dancing Master Vol the First, 18th edition | |
| Bridges | 1745 | Kitty Bridges' Notebook 1745 | Facsimile |
| Rainstorp | 1747 + | Osborne Music MS 12 (The “Rainstorp” manuscript) | Facsimile |
| Dukes | 1752 | A Concise & easy method of learning the figuring part of country dances, by way of characters. | Facsimile |
| Willsim | 1755 | Recueil de 24 Contredances Angloise les Plus Usité | |
| A. D. 1764 | 1764 | Country-dancing made plain easy to every capacity | Facsimile |
| Gallini | 1772 | A Treatise on the Art of Dancing | Facsimile, Transcript |
| Thompson 1774 | 1774 | Twenty-four dances for the year 1774 | Facsimile |
| Llangadfan | 1790 ca | NLW Add MSS 171E (The “Llangadfan” dances) |