TY - BOOK AU - Parsons,David ED - Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society ED - Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Conference TI - On common ground: proceedings of the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society conference PY - 1996///] CY - Salisbury PB - Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society KW - Dance history and theory N1 - Proceedings of the (first) Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society conference held 24th February 1996 at Middlesex University School of Dance, Bedford; The establishment of the ballet d'action in France / Ivor Guest -- Serious, grotesque of scenical? The Passaglia of Venus and Adonis and dancing on the London stage 1700-1740 / Moira Goff -- Capturing details of performance / Ann Hutchinson Guest -- The art of transcription. A discussion of the issues in transcribing, using fifteenth century Italian texts / David Wilson -- The Estampie. Arrangements of value to teachers and performers / Peggy Dixon -- Will the music tell you what to do? Illustrations from Playford / Ian Gatiss -- THE ISTD Dance Research Committee; the first five years / Nicola Gaines -- Style or stylus? Mr Isaac's dance notations in the early eighteenth century / Jennifer Thorp -- Rooted in the Renaissance. A study of basic step structure and its development from early Renaissance manuscripts to the early baroque period / Diana Cruickshank ER -