Nonsuch/Eglinton Instruction Books and Music

Dances and Dance Styles from the 12th to the 19th Century

The Nonsuch/Eglinton books and tapes have been greatly appreciated for their practicality.

They contain detailed instructions and 'quick crib' notes for teachers, performers, choreographers, and students.

The tapes carry a timed list of dances on the cassette cover, and each dance is identified by an announcement on the tape.

Volume I

is the first of a new edition, now entitled

DANCES FROM THE COURTS OF EUROPE

Farandole, Branles, Estampies, Special Dance Arrangements, and 15th century French Basse Dances

Introductory notes on source material

Advice to teachers and performers on style

Colour reproductions of the Lorenzetti and Buonaiuto frescoes

Historical notes and contemporary quotes in 'A History Tourist's Scrapbook'

The accompanying Cassette Tape No. 1.1 contains music for all the dances played at the appropriate speed for dancing with the necessary repeat structure each dance with identifying announcement and musical introduction.

Volume II
Italian Renaissance (15thC) and Caroso & Negri (16thC) Italian Dances

15th Century Italian Dances: Pellegrina, Rostibolly, Anello, Alexandresca (to Balletto and Quem Pastores), Gelosia, Mercantia, Daphnes, Sobria, Jupiter, Zinevra, Prexoniera, Venus, Verceppe.

16th century Italian Dances: Torneo Amoroso, Bella Gioiosa (Cascarda), Austria Felice (Ballo for 6 ladies), Furioso, Alta Mendoza, Brando di Cales, Corrente.

Volume III/IV
Tudor Dances, & early English Country Dances

Part I: Basse Dance, Jouissance vous donnerai & Tordion. Almaine & Recoupe, and New Almaine. Pavane, ("Belle qui tiens ma vie …" long and short versions), Tordion, Pavane & Galliarde suites, Battle Pavane, and music for step practice or own choreography, including "Tant que vivray", and Anthony Holborne's The Fairy Round. English Coranto, Spanish Pavane, La Volta, La Morisque.

Part II: Arbeau Branles de Champagne, Charlotte, Pinagay, Aridan, Horses, Officials, Clogs, Washerwomen, de la Guerre, de la Montarde, Scots branle; also music for other Branles Coupés; Almaines, Black, Queen's, and Cecilia, Country Dances: Nonsuch, Confesse, Heartsease, Parsons' Farewell, Rufty Tufty, Sellinger's Round, Mundesse, Cuckolds All Awry, Shepherds' Holiday, Dargason, St Martin's. (Also 17th C 'Love for Love')

Volume V
Later English Country Dances

Gathering Peascods, Hide Park, Gray's Inn Maske, Jenny Pluck Pears, Lull Me Beyond Thee, Mage on a Cree, Picking of Sticks, Oranges & Lemons, Mr Beveridge's Maggot, Maids' Morris, Hunsdon House, Scotch Measure, The Slip, Trip to the Jubilee, The Happy Pair, The Hole in the Wall, The Guidman of Ballangigh, The Spring, Miss Stuart Seton's Reel, The Rakes of Rochester.

Volume VI
Ballroom Dances of the 17th/18th Century

(Includes dances in Feuillet notation with verbal descriptions alongside, and instructions in notation.)

The Ballroom Minuet (Rameau's), Isaacs' solo Minuet, Pécours' Gigue de Roland, Feuillet's Forlana (solo, & duo), Feuillet's Sarabande for a lady (1700 and 1704 versions), Calverley's Minuet for Five, Holt's Minuet for Four & Jigg, Pécour's Echo Bourrée Minuet for 3, Feuillet's Bourrée d'Achille, Feuillet's stage minuet for 2, a selection from Guillaume's (theoretically non reglé) Allemande sequences, and de la Cuisse's Cotillion La Grecque.

Volumes VIIa & VIII
VIIa Late 18th century & 19th century Ballroom Dances & Glossary

The Allemande, (the earliest non reglé dance), including transcripts of the original instructions and drawings of Dubois and Guillaume. Cotillions, Quadrilles (incl. the Lancers and the Fledermaus Quadrille, La Française), English duple & triple minor Country Dances, 'Scotch' Reels; and closed couple dances such as the Waltz, Polka, Mazurka, Galop, Varsovienne, and Schottische.

VIII Glossary of 18th & 19th Century Dance Terms
An essential accompaniment to Volume VIIa.

Volume IX

(or First Supplement)

A miscellany of additional dances from all periods: Mediaeval: Manfredina and Rotta, La Spagna (short). Italian 15th Century: Ligiadra, Leoncello, Tesara.

Italian 16th Century: Contentezza d'Amore, Contrapasso Nuovo, La Nizzarda, Il Conto dell'Orco.

English Country Dances: Chelsea Reach, Fayne I Would, Well Hall, Woolly & Georgey, Drapers' Maggot, The Hole in the Wall.

Baroque: Queen Caroline's March, Passacaille d'Armide.

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