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Call No.: QS 35.3 Locked Cupboard Off-site storage Tom Cook Annex The dancing master; or, directions for dancing country dances : with the tunes to each dance for the treble-violin / - The ninth edition corrected, with the addition of several new dances and tunes never before printed. - London : Printed by E. Jones, for H. Playford, 1695. - 196, 24, 12 p. : ill., music ; 11 x 18 cm.

First edition published in 1651 under title: The English dancing-master. Available on microfilm.

Originally published in 1650 under the title of The English dancing master, this work went through numerous editions from 1652 to 1728. Compiled by John Playford (1623-1687), a publisher of music books, the treatise is considered an important work on English country dances, a form of dance where couples perform a series of set patterns. "In this [ninth] edition more 'old' dances are omitted than new ones are added, but amongst these last are the 'maggots' (whims, curiosities, personal creations), intricate dances in the tempo of the Purcellian or Handelian hornpipe... ...To this edition is added an appendix of 24 new dances entitled The Second Part of the Dancing Master, dated 1696, with separate title and imprint from a new address...[plus] A further Additional Sheet for the Second Part of the Compleat Dancing Master... " Dean-Smith (1957)

In: The dancing master [4th, 8th, and 9th editions] On microfilm R 004



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