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English Country Dance-Old Measures-The Gressley Dances-Jane Austen

 

y la danza-William Shakespeare y la danza

 

Austen, Jane. Jane Austen's Letters. Ed. Deirdre Le Faye. 3rd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1995.

Brissenden, Allan. Shakespeare and the Dance. Humanities Press. New Jersey, 1984.

Coplande, Robert. The manner of dauncing the basse dances. 1521.

 

Cottis, Ann. Women and Dancing after the Restoration.

         https://historicaldance.org.uk/journal/volume/2

Cunningham, James P. Dancing in the Inns of Court. London, Jordan & Sons, 1965. 

        Contains background information, quotes, and transcriptions.

Davis, John. Orchestra, or a poeme on dauncing1596.

 

Dolmetch, Mabel. Dances of England and France 1450-1600. With their music and authentic manner fo performance. Routledge and Kegan Paul ltd. Londres, 1959.

Dolmetch, Mabel. Dances of Spain and Italy from 1400 to 1600. Da Capo Press. Nueva York, 1975.

Dixon, Peggy. Danza Histórica Nonsuch. Del Medievo a la Basse Danse Francesa (S.V) Volumen 1. 3a edición.   

        Traducción de Carlos Blanco. Impreso en Soc. Coop. de Artes Gráficas Librería General, 1999.

Durham, Peter & Janelle. Dances from the Inns of Court. Redmond, WA, by the authors, 1998.

       Includes historical background, reconstructions of steps and dances, and a concordance of the sources.

 

Payne, Ian. The Almain in Britain. Ashgate, 2003.

Elyot, Thomas. The book named the Governor. 1531.

Esses, John. For the Further improvement of Dancing. 1710.

 

Ferriol y Boixeraus, Bartolomé: Reglas útiles para los aficionados a danzar. 1745. 

   http://imslp.org/wiki/Reglas_utiles_para_los_aficionados_a_danzar_(Ferriol,_Bartolom%C3%A9)

Feuillet. Raoul. Recuil de contradances. 1706.

      http://data.bnf.fr/12766533/raoul_auger_feuillet/

Gresley Manuscript. John Bany´s Notebook.  1480-1520 aprox.

 

Hilton, Wendy. Dances of Court and Theater; The French Noble Style 1690-1725. Princeton Book Company. USA, 1981.

 

Historical Dance Society. Dances for Jane Austen. UK, 2012.

Historical Dance Society. More Dances for Jane Austen. UK, 2015.

Historical Dance Society. From Rout to Regency. UK, 2º de 2009.

 

Howard, Skiles. Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England. University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

 

Keller. Robert M. The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium

      http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/

La Cuisse, Sr. de. Le répertoire des bals, ou théorie pratique des contredanses, décrites d’une manière aisée avec des fi gures démonstratives pour les pouvoir danser facilement, auxquelles on a ajouté les airs notés. Paris, Cailleau, Castagnery, 1762.

Macks, Aron. The Ward Dance Manuscript: A new source for Seventeenth-Century English Country Dance. Harvard Library Bulletin. Volume 27, Number 3, 2016.

Marsh. Carol G. The Lovelace Manuscript. A Preliminary Strudy. Rothenfelser Tanzsymposion, 2004.

 

Minguet e Yrol, Pablo: Quadernillo curioso, de veinte contradanzas nuevas, escritas de todas quantas maneras se han inventado hasta ahora. 1745.

      http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000061851&page=1

Playford, John. The English Dancing Master: or, Plaine and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance. London, printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by John Playford, at his Shop in the Inner Temple neere the Church doore. London: 1651.

       Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

 

Rico Oses, Clara. La contradanza en España en el s. XVIII. Ferriol y Boixeraus y Minguet e Yrol en los bailes públicos.  ANUARIO MUSICAL, N.º 64 enero-diciembre 2009.

 

Ruíz Mayordomo, María José. Los maestros de Danzar en la corte de los Austrias.

     http://www.academia.edu/9157610/Los_Maestros_de_Danzar_en_la_Corte_de_los_Austrias

Streitberger, Robert. Court Revels 1485-1559. Studies in Early English Drama 3. University of Toronto Press, 2012.

 

Sutton, Julia. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance. A new translation and edition of the “Nobilitá di Dame” 1600. Fabritio Caroso. Dover Publication. NY, 1995.

Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Volume II: 1721-1751. Ed. Robert Halsband. Oxford: Clarendon P. 1966.

Zamácola, Iza. Elementos de la ciencia contradanzaria, para que los Currutacos, Pirracas y Madamitas de Nuevo Cuño puedan aprender por principios a bailar las contradanzas por sí solos o con las sillas de su casa. Madrid, en la imprenta de la viuda de Joseph García, MDCCXCVI. Madrid, 1796.

 The Old Measures

Fuentes primarias:


1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poet. 108. 1570


2. Somerset Records Office, DD/WO 55/7, item 36. 1594.


3. London, British Library, MS Harleian 367. 1575-1625


4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 280. circa 1606


5. Oxford, Bodleain Library, MS Rawlinson D 864. c. 1630


6. London, Inner Temple Records, “Revels, Foundlings, and Unclassified, Miscellanea, Undated, &c.” v27.
1672-75


7. London, Royal College of Music, MS 1119. circa 1675

Secundarias: 

Wilson, D. R. “Dancing in the Inns of Court.” In Historical Dance, vol. 2, No.5, 1986-87.

Gresley Dances

Fuente primaria:
Matlock, Derbyshire Record Office D77 box 38 (Gresley). Facsimile: Derbyshire County Council and Document Control Services. John Banys’ Medieval Dance Notebook. CD-ROM facsimile.
 
Secundarias: 
 

Fallows, David. “The Gresley Dance Collection”. In Royal Musicological Association Research Chronicle, 29, 1996.

 

Neville, Jennifer. “Dance Steps and Music in the Gresley Manuscript”. In Historical Dance, 3.6, 1999.

 

Webb, Cait. Eschewynge of Ydleness: Steps for Dancing. Manual with reconstructions.

 

Wilson, David. “Performing Gresley Dances: the View from the Floor”. In Historical Dance, 3.6, 1999.

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