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The present volume concludes Melusine Wood's studies of characteristic dances from past ages, this final sheaf being intended for the more advanced student, since many of the dances comprise certain difficulties of style and technique. The contents range from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries and discuss in detail the following dances with full directions for their performance THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY The Minuet The Minuet (Kellom Tomlinson) The Minuet (Rameau) The French Dances La Bourr Nouvelle The Royal George. Rigaudon-Passepied Contredanse Christchurch Bells (Playford) Le Carillon d'Oxford (Feuillet) La Marquise (de la Cuisse) Los Petimetres y Petimetras (Minguet) Contredanse (Gallini) Harbour's Allemande The Transition to Ballet L'Aimable Vainqueur (Pécour) Forlana (Pécour) Chaconne for a Harlequin (Roussau) THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Revivals Minuet (d'Egville) Gavotte (d'Egville)

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Dance

• Full title: Advanced Historical Dances
• Author: Melusine Wood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• EAN: 9781906830267
• ISBN: 9781906830267
• ID: 08863817
• Publisher: The Noverre Press
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 191 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2010

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