16 results filtered with: Dance - Early works to 1800
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Orchesography. Or, the art of dancing, by characters and demonstrative figures. Wherein the whole art is explain'd; ... an exact and just translation from the French of Monsieur Feuillet. By John Weaver, ...
Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 1660-1710.Date: 1706- Books
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The union a new dance compos'd by Mr. Issac perform'd at court on Her Majestie's birth day Febr: ye 6th 1707. And writt down in characters by John Weaver.
Isaac, Mr.Date: 1707?]- Books
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In and out and turn about: a new c----t-dance. To the tune of John Bob'd in, and John Bob'd out: or, Bob in Joan: or, the Miller of Mansfield.
Date: 1745]- Books
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The dancing-master: or, directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin.
Date: 1721- Books
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The Dancing-master: Or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin. The fourteenth edition, containing above 350 of the choicest old and new tunes now used at court, and other publick places. The whole work revised and done in the new ty'd-note, and much more correct than any former editions.
Date: 1709- Books
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A concise & easy method of learning the figuring part of country dances, by way of characters. To which is prefixed The figure of the minuet, by Nicholas Dukes, Dancing Master.
Dukes, Nicholas.Date: 1752]- Books
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An essay towards an history of dancing, in which the whole art and its various excellencies are in some measure explain'd. Containing The several Sorts of Dancing, Antique and Modern, Serious, Scenical, Grotesque, &c. with the Use of it as an Exercise, Qualification, Diversion, &c.
Weaver, John, 1673-1760.Date: 1712- Books
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A mechanical essay on singing, musick and dancing. Containing their uses and abuses; and demonstrating, by clear and evident reasons, the alterations they produce in a human body.
Browne, Richard, apothecary in Oakham.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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At the [blank] this present day shall bee showne rare dancing on the ropes, acted by His Maiesties servants : wherein an Irish boy of eight yeares old doth vault on the high rope, the like was never seene: and one mayd of fifteene yeares of age, and another girle of foure yeares of age, doe dance on the low rope; and the said girle of foure yeares of age doth turne on the stage, and put in fourescore threds into the eye of an needle. And other rare activityes of body, as vaulting and tumbling on the stage, and egges dancing upon a staffe, with other rare varietyes of dancing, the like hath not beene seene in the realme of England. And the merry conceites of Iacke Pudding.
Date: [1635?]- Books
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The dancing-master: Or, the art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts. The first, treating of the proper positions and different attitudes for men and women, from which all the steps are to be taken and performed; adorned with instructive figures: with a description of the menuet figure, shewing the beautiful turns and graceful motions of the body in that dance. The second, of the use and graceful motion of the arms with the legs in taking the proper movements and forming the contracts, with figures for the better explanation. The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. Done from the French of Monsieur Rameau, by J. Essex, dancing-master.
Rameau, Pierre.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The dancing-Master: Or, Directions for Dancing Country Dances, with the Tunes to each Dance, for the Treble-Violin. The fifteenth edition. Containing above 350 of the Choicest Old and New Tunes now used Court, and other Publick Places. The Whole Work Revised and done on the New-Ty'd-Note, and much more correct than any former Editions.
Date: [1713]- Books
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Anatomical and mechanical lectures upon dancing. Wherein rules and institutions for that art are laid down and demonstrated. As they were read at the academy in Chancery Lane. By John Weaver, Dancing Master. Spartam quam nactus est, hanc ornat.
Weaver, John, 1673-1760.Date: M.DCC.XXI. [1721]- Books
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A satyr against dancing. By a person of honour.
Person of Honour.Date: [1702]- Books
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The Dancing master: Vol. the first. Or, Directions for dancing country-dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin. The 18th edition, containing 358 of the choicest old and new tunes now used at court, and other publick places. The whole work revised and done on the new-ty'd-note, and much more correct than any former editions.
Date: [1725?]- Books
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The dancing-master: or, directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance for the treble-violin.
Date: 1703- Books
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A treatise on the art of dancing. By Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, Director of the Dances at the Royal Theatre in the Haymarket.
Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea, 1728-1805.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]