Source Books: 15th-20th Century

Dancetime Publications owns many rare, hard-to-find books on dance and related cultural life. Below is a list of books for further research. Please select a century or subject area for more information.

They are not for sale on our website.
Check our affiliate partner or Out-Of-Print book sellers on the web if you would like to read any of the books.

15th Century 17th Century 19th Century
16th Century 18th Century 20th Century

 

History of Dance: 15th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Brainard, Ingrid. Three Court Dances of the Early Renaissance. 1971 New York: Dance Notation Bureau Press.
Closson, Ernest. Le Manuscript Dit des Basses Danses. 1912; reprint
1976		 Genève: Minkoff.
Cornazano, Antonio. The Book on the Art of Dancing. Translated by Madeleine Inglehearn and Peggy Forsyth. 1455; 1981 London: Dance Books Ltd.
Dolmetsch, Mabel. Dances of England and France 1450-1600. 1949; 1976 London: Da Capo. 1976 edition.
Inglehearn, Madeleine. 15th Century Dances from Burgundy and Italy. 1981 London: Companie of Dansers, Guildhall Waits.
Inkeldy, Otto. A Jewish Dancing Master of the Renaissance: Guglielmo Ebreo. 1463; 1929 New York: Dance Horizons, Inc.
Marrocco, W. Thomas. Inventory of 15th Century Bassedanze, Balli & Balletti. 1450; 1981 New York: Congress on Research in Dance.
Sparti, Barbara, ed. De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii. On the Practice or Art of Dancing by Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro. 1993 Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Toulouze, Michel. L’Art de l’instruction de bien dancer. 1488; 1936 London: Royal College of Physicians.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Brainard, Ingrid. The Art of Courtly Dancing in the Early Renaissance. 1981 West Newton, Massachusetts: Privately published.
Closson, Ernest. Le Manuscript Dit des Basses Dances de la Biblilotheque de Bourgogne. 1912 New York: Broude Bros. First published 1912 by Societé des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique.
Cornazano, Antonio. Libro dell’arte del danzare. 1465 unidentified
Crane, Frederick. Materials for the Study of the 15th Century Basse Dance. 1968 New York: The Institute of Medieval Music, Ltd.
Da Ferrara, Domenico. Liber Ballorum. 1460 unidentified
Ebreo, Guglielmo. Dell Arte del Ballo. 1463 Giovanni Ambrosia. (with music)
Ebreo, Guglielmo. Dell Arte del Ballo. 1873 Bologne: Scelta de Cuiosita Letterarie.
Heartz, Daniel. Hoftanz and Basse Dance, in Journal of American Musicological Society vol. 19, no. 1: 13-36 1966 unidentified
Heartz, Daniel. The Basse Dance, Its Evolution, in Annales Musicologiques vol. 6, (1958-63): 287-340 1450-1550 unidentified
Hughes, David. Instrumental Music. 1959 Boston: Harvard University Press.
Lequet, A.E. The Art and Instruction of Good Dancing. (Notes on Antonius Arena; translation from French). 1971 London.
Pisauriensis, Guglielmi Hebraei. De Practica se Arte Tripud Vulgare Opuscuum Incipit. 1460 unidentified
Thomas, Emma Lewis. Music and Dance in Boccaccio’s Time, in Dance Research Journal vol. 10, no.2: 23-42. (Unfinished translation of manuscript by Antonius Arena.) 1978 unidentified

 

Back To Top

History of Dance: 16th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchésography. Translated by C.W. Beaumont. 1588; 1925 London.
Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchésography. Translated by C. W. Beaumont. 1588; 1968 New York: Dance Horizons, Inc.
Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchésography. Introduction and notes by John Sutton. 1589; 1967 New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Caroso, Marco Fabrizio. Il Ballarino. Facsimile of 1581 Venice ed. 1967 New York: Broude Bros.
Caroso, Marco Fabrizio. Nobiltà di Dame. Facsimile of 1600 Venice ed. 1970 Bologna: Forni Editore.
Compasso, Lutio. Ballo Della Gagliarda. 1560; 1995 fa-gisis Musik-und Tanzedition.
Dolmetsch, Mabel. Dances of England and France 1450-1600. 1949; 1976 London: Da Capo.
Feves, Angene. Dances of a Noble Gathering: 16th Century Court Dances from Il Ballarino. (1581). 1985 Pleasant Hill, California: Consortium Antiquum, Inc.
Negri, Cesare. Le Gratie d’Amore. Facsimile of 1602 Milan ed. reprint 1969 Bologna: Forni Editore.
Negri, Cesare. Le Gratie d’Amore. Translation & commentary by Yvonne Gustavia Kendall. 1985 Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilm Dissertation Services.
Newman, Joel. ed. Sixteenth Century Italian Dances. 1966 The Penn State Music Series, #12. (with music)
Playford, John. The English Dancing Master. 1651 ed.;
reprint 1933		 New York: Dance Horizons.
Pugliese, Patri J. and Joseph Casazza. Practise for Dancing: Some Almans and a Pavan, England 1570-1650. 1980 Cambridge, Massachusetts: privately published.
Wood, Melusine. Historical Dances 12th to 19th Century. 1952; reprint 1964 London: The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing Inc.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Aldrich, Kenneth Richard. The Italian Influence on Dance in the Court of Elizabeth I. 1979 master’s thesis, University of Oregon.
Cunningham, James. Dancing in the Inns of Court. 1965 London: Jordan and Sons.
Jones, Pamela. Spectacle in Milan; Cesare Negri’s Torch Dances, in Early Music. vol. 14, no. 2: 182-198. 1986 Renaissance Dance Music. (with music transcriptions)
Sorrell, Walter. Shakespeare and the Dance, in Shakespeare Quarterly vol. 8: 367-384. 1957 —

 

Back To Top

History of Dance: 17th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
De Laban, Juana. Institute of Court Dances of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods. 1972 New York: Committee On Research in Dance. Sponsored by the Dance Notation Bureau.
De Lauze, F. Apologie de la Danse. Translated by Joan Wildeblood. 1623; 1952 London: Frederick Muller, Ltd.
Negri, Cesare. Le Gratie D’amore. Facsimile of 1602 Milan ed. reprint 1969 Bologna: Forni Editore.
Playford, John. The English Dancing Master. 1651 New York: Dance Horizons, Inc.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Bray, Thomas. Country Dances: A Composition Entirely New. 1699 London: William Pearsons.
Coldwell, Charles P. Angelo Gardano’s Balletti Moderni and Its Relation to Cesare Negri’s Le Gratie d’Amore. 1602; 1981 Boston: American Musicogical Society.
Di Esquivel Navarro, Juan. Discursos Sobre el Arte del Danzado. 1642; 1947 Madrid: Associacion de Libreros y Amigos del Libro.
Hurd, Victoria. Four Dances of Early 17th Century Spain. 1968 master’s thesis.
Jones, Pamela. The Relation Between Music and Dance in Cesare Negri’s Le Gratie d’Amore, (1602). 1988 London: PhD diss., University of London.
L’Abbé. Ball and Stage Dances. Baroque, English. unknown unidentified
Langston, Ann Lizbeth. Italian Gagliarda Dance Movement in Four Dances from Cesare Negri’s Le Gratie d’ Amore (1602). 1988 master’s thesis, University of California at Riverside.
Lorin, André. Luire de Contradance. 1688 Versailles.
Lully. Le Triomphe de L’Amour. 1681 Paris: Christophe Ballard.
Lupi, Livio. Libro di Gagliarda, Tordiglione, Passo e Mezzo, Canari, e Passeggi. 1607 Palermo.
Marsh, Carol G. & Rebecca Harris-Warrick. Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos. 1688. 1988 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Published by the authors.
Menestrier. L’Avtel de Lyon. 1658 Lyon: Jean Molin.
Menestrier. Des Ballets Anciens et Modernes. 1682 Paris: René Guignard.

 

Back To Top

History of Dance: 18th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Bacguoy-Guédon. Méthode pour exercer l’Oreille à la Mesure, dans l’Art de la Danse. 1784;
reprint 1972		 Genève: Minkoff, Amsterdam edition.
Dezais, Sr. Recueil de nouvelles Contredances. 1712;
Reprint 1972		 England: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Dufort, Giambatista. Trattato del Ballo Nobile. 1728;
reprint 1972		 England: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd., 1972.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Chorégraphie ou l’Art de décrire la Dance. Facsimile of 1700 Paris Edition 1968 New York: Broude Bros.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Chorégraphie ou l’Art de décrire la Dance. 1970 Bologna: Forni nel Giugno, editor.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Recueil de Dances. 1704; reprint 1972 England: Gregg International
Publishers, Ltd.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Recueil de Contredances. 1706; reprint 1968 New York: Broude Bros.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. For the Further Improvement of Dancing. Translated by John Essex. 1710;
reprint 1970		 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Gallini, Giovanni-Andre. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing. 1762;
reprint 1967		 New York: Broude Bros.
Gerbes, Angelika Renate. Gottfried Taubert on Social and Theatrical Dance of the Early 18th Century. 1972; 1977 Ann Arbor, Michigan: PhD diss., University Microfilms, Ohio State University edition.
Guilcher, Jean-Michel. La Contredanse et les Renouvellements de la Danse Française. 1969 Paris: Mouton & Company.
Harris-Warrick, Rebecca & Carol G. Marsh. Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV. 1994 Great Britain: Cambridge University Press.
Little, Meredith Ellis & Marsh, Carol G. La Danse Noble, An Inventory of Dances and Sources. 1992 New York: Broude Bros.
Magri, Gennaro. Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing. Translated by Mary Skeaping. 1779; 1988 London Dance Books.
Malpied. Traité sur L’Art de la Danse. 1770;
reprint 1972		 London: Gregg International Publishers Ltd.
Malpied. Traité sur L’Art de la Danse. 1770; reprint 1972 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Martinet, J.J. Essai, ou Principes Elémentaires De L’Art de la Dance. 1797 Lausanne: Chez Monnier et Jaquerod.
Pemberton, E. An Essay for the Improvement of Dancing. 1711; reprint 1970 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Pécour, Louis. Recueil de Danses and la Nouvelle Galliarde. 1700; reprint 1970 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Powers, Richard. List of 19th and Early 20th Century Danse Orchestrations. 1991 Notes
Ralph, Richard. Life and Works of John Weaver. 1985 New York: Dance Horizons
Rameau, Pierre. Abrégé de la Nouvelle Méthode. 1700; reprint 1972 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.
Rameau, Pierre. Le Maître à danser. 1725; reprint 1967 New York: Broude Bros.
Rameau, Pierre. The Dancing Master. Translated by Cyril Beaumont. (1931) 1725; 1970 New York: Dance Horizons. 1970 edition.
The Tenor of Terpsichore. 1790;
1983		 U.S.A.: Friends of the English Regency, (c.1790-1820).
Tomlinson, Kellom. The Art of Dancing and Six Dances. 1720, 1735; 1970 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd. and Dance Horizons., vols. I & II, 1970 edition.
The Black Crook. 1866 assorted articles.
Weaver, John. Orchésography & A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing. 1706; reprint 1971 London: Gregg International Publishers, Ltd.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Bickham, George Jr. An Easy Introduction to Dancing. 1738 London.
Dubois, M. Contredances Francaises. 1774 Paris: J. Dezauche.
De la Cuisse. Le Répertoire des Bals. 1762 Paris: Librairie Cailleau.
Dezais. Recueil de Danses. French Baroque. (c. 1713-1720) unidentified
Early American Dances. unknown Early American Dances. American Music Research Center
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Chorégraphie ou L’Art de décrire la Dance. 1700 Paris.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Recueil de Danses de Bal le Passepied Nouveau. French Baroque. (c. 1700-07) Paris.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Recueil de Contredances. French Baroque. 1706 Paris.
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Danses et Contredances. (c.1708-12) unidentified
Feuillet, Raoul Auger. Recueil de Danses with Malpied’s Les Caractères de Contredances. 1711 unidentified
Gallini, Giovanni-Andre. Critical Observations on the Art of Dancing with a Collection of Cotillions of French Dances. unknown London: published by the author.
Gourdoux, Daux, Jh. Principes et Notions Elémentaires ou l’ Art de la Danse pour la Ville. 1811 Paris: published by the author.
Guillou, V. Elements & Principles of the Art of Dancing, translated from the French. 1817 Philadelphia: J. F. Hurtez, Printer.
Gerbes, Angelika Renate. Gottfried Taubert on Social & Theatrical Dance of Early 18th Century. 1972 PhD diss., Ohio State University.
Guillaume. Caractères de la Danse Allemande. 1769 Paris: Chez L’auteur.
Isaac. New Dances for the Queen’s Birthday. 1706-1715 unidentified
Johnson, F. A Collection of New Cotillions. Early American dances with music. unknown unidentified
Landrin. Contre-danse Allemande. c.1770 Paris: Chez L’auteur.
Magny, M. Principes de Chorégraphie. 1765 Paris: Ducheane De la Chevardière.
Magri, Gennaro. Trattato de Ballo. 1769 Napoli.
Marsh, Carol. French Court Dance in England: A Study of Sources. Facsimile of the 1985 edition. 1706-1740;
1986		 Ann Arbor, Michigan. PhD diss., University Microfilms International.
Pecour, Louis. Entrées de Ballet. French Baroque. 1712 Paris: Gaudrau.
Pemberton, E. Dances by A. L’Abbé. 1715-1725 unidentified
Pemberton, E. Dances by A. L’Abbé. 1715-1716, 1731-1733 unidentified
Roussau, F. Le. A Chacoon for a Harlequin.   London.
Russell, Craig H. Santiago de Murcia: Theorist & Guitarist of the Early 18th Century. 1981 PhD diss. (Music)
Siret, M. A Set of Cotillions. unknown London.
Siris, M. La Camilla from Bononcini. 1708 London. Amsterdam.
Weaver, John. A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing. 1706 London.
Weeks, Clement. Early American Dances. 1783;
1979		 American Antiquarian Society.
Wilcox, Asa. Contredances. 1793 unidentified
Wilcox, Asa. Book of Figures. 1793;
1918 printing		 Williamsburg Early American Collection.

 

Back To Top

History of Dance: 19th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
A Guide to the Ball Room and Illustrated Polka Lesson Book, by “a man of fashion”.  unknown London: C. Mitchell.
Carner, Mosco. The Waltz. 1948 London: Max Parrish & Company, Ltd.
Cartier, P. Valleau. Cartier’s Waltz Instructor, Ball Room Guide and Call Book. 1882 New York: DeWitt Publishing House.
Cellarius. The Drawing-Room Dances. 1858 New York: Dinsmore and Company.
Boston: Ditson & Co.
Cellarius. Fashionable Dancing. 1848 London: David Bogue.
Cellarius. La Danse des Salons. 1849 Paris: published by the author.
Cellarius. La Danse des Salons. Edited by Jerome Million. 1847; 1993 Grenoble: Vaucanson.
Cleveland, C. H., Jr. Dancing at Home and Abroad. 1877 Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company.
Conway, E. H. Le Maître de Danse. 1827 New York: C. & Van Winkle.
Cootes, R. How to Dance: Ballroom Guide. 1870 London: Willey & Co.
Coralli, Eugene. La Polka enseiguie sans Maître. Facsimile. 1845 Paris: Chez Aubert.
De Garmo, William B. The Dance of Society. 1879 New York: published by the author.
Desrat, G. Dictionaire de la dance. 1895 Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries reines.
Desrat, G. Traité de la Danse et du Cotillion. 1880 Paris: H. Delarue, Libraire-Editeur.
Dodworth, Allen. Dancing 1888 Harper & Bros.
Durang, John. Terpsichore or Ballroom Guide. 1847 Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother.
Ferrero, Edward. The Art of Dancing. 1859 New York: Ferrero.
Gawlikowski. Guide complet de la Danse. 1858 Paris: Taride.
Gems of the Ballroom Call Book. 1896 Chicago: E. T. Root & Sons.
The German: How to Give It, How to Lead It, How to Dance It. 1888 Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company.
Gott, George C. Old Familiar Dances with Figures. 1918 Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson Company.
Gilbert, M. B. Round Dancing. 1890 Portland.
Giraudet, Eugene. Traité de la Danse. 1891 Paris: published by the author.
Huart, Louis. Paris au Bal. (c. 1800) Paris: Aubert et Cie.
Henderson, Mrs. Nicholas. Soirées Dansantes: Handbook of the Ballroom. 1865 London: George Biggs/Strand.
Hillgrove, Thomas. Art of Dancing or Hillgrove Ballroom Guide and Practical Dancer. 1869 New York: Dick & Fitzgerald.
How to Dance. 1893 London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. (with music)
Howe, Elias. American Dancing Master. 1889 Boston: Howe.
Howe, Elias. American Dancing Master and Ballroom Prompter. 1889 Boston: Howe. Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance edition.
Howe, Elias. Ball-room Handbook. 1858 Boston: A. Willams et Co.
Laborde. Cotillion. 1850 Paris: Imp. Bertauts.
Lawson, Edward. Guide to Dancing. 1880 London: George Routledge & Sons.
Mahler, Jacob. Original Cotillion Figures. 1900 St. Louis: Gottschalk Printing Co.
Masters, E. Woodworth. The Standard Dance Album. 1883 Boston: published by the author.
Nettl, Paul. Birth of the Waltz, in Dance Index vol 5, no. 9.  1946 New York: Dance Index-Ballet Caravan, Inc.
Practical Guide to the Ballroom. 1875 London: C. Jeffreys.
Reilley, E. B. The Amateur’s Vademecum. 1870 Philadelphia: J. Nicholas.
Richardson, Philip J. S. Social Dances of the 19th Century in England, vols. 1 & 2.  1960 London: Herbert Jenkins.
Robertson, George. Roberts’ Manual of Fashionable Dancing. 1875 Melbourne.
Scott, Edward. Dancing & Dancers or Grace & Folley. 1888 London: Ward & Downey.
Seaton, Mr. J. The Ballroom Manual and Etiquette of Dancing. 1851 Halifax: Milner and Sowerby.
Selection of Favorite Quadrilles or Fashionable French Dances. 1820 London: C. Wheatstone.
Strobel, E. Desmond. Compilation of Writings on the Waltz, the Cotillion, The Quadrille, the Polka, the Escossaise. unknown unidentified
Vestris, Desiré. Les Danses d’autrefois 9: de la Pavane à la Gavotte. unknown Paris: C. Marron et E. Flammarion editeurs.
Wehman Bros. The Way to Dance or Dancing Without a Master. 1890 New York: Wehman Bros.
Wilson, George E. Ballroom Guide or Dancing Self-Taught. 1884 New York: Excelsior Publishing House.
Wilson, Thomas. The Correct method of German & French Waltzing. 1817 London: published by the author.
Zorn, Friedrich Albert. The Grammar of the Art of Dancing. Translated by Alfonso J. Sheafe.  1885; 1905 Boston: The Heintzemann Press.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE

DATE

PUBLISHER

Adice, G. Leopold. Théorie de la Gymnastique de la Danse Théâtrale. 1859 Paris.
Allan’s reference Guide to the Ball-Room. unknown Glasgow: Author.
Analysis of the London Ballroom. 1825 London: Plummer & Brewis. (with music)
A Treatise on Dancing and on Various Other Matters. 1802 Boston Commercial Gazette.
Beadle’s Dime Ballroom Companion & Guide to Dancing. 1868 New York: Beadle & Co.
Birch, Thomas. Quadrilles. Social dance music with steps. unknown New York.
Brooks, L. de G. Brookes on Modern Dancing. 1867 New York.
Cable, George W. The Dance in Place Congo. 1886 From The Century Magazine.
Carpenter, Lucien O. Universal Dancing Master. 1802 Philadelphia: J. W. Pepper & Son.
Castori, Louis. Tanzmeister. 1826 unidentified
Conroy, E. H. Le Maître de Dance. 1827 New York: C. & Van Winkle.
Contredances. Recueil (Landrin and others), vols. 1 and 2. (c. 1804) unidentified
DeGarmo, William B. The Dance of Society. 1875 New York: William A. Pond & Company.
DeGarmo, Wiiliam B. The Prompter (with 1865 Turkey Trot). 1866 New York.
Dick’s Quadrille Call-Book. 1895 New York: Dick & Fitzgerald.
Dun, Barclay. Quadrilles consisting of fifty-five Country Dances. 1818 Edinburgh: William Wilson & Co.
Durang, Charles. The Ballroom Bijou. 1855 Boston: Fisher and Brother.
Durang, Charles. The Fashionable Dancer’s Casket with Tango, Etiquette, Spanish Waltz. 1856 Philadelphia: Fisher and Brother.
Guillard, Yves. Le Quadrille Terl qu’il se dansait à ses Origines. 1988 Le Mans: La Fricassée.
Hammond, Sandra N. Evolution of the Ballet Class. 1978 University of Arizona.
Hartley, Florenc. The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette. 1860 Boston: G. W. Cottrell.
Howe, Elias. Drawing-Room Dances. 1859 Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company. (with music)
Howe, Elias. Fifty Contra Dances. c.1850 Boston: published by the author.
LaBorde. La Mazourka. unknown Paris: Chez Aubert.
Martine, Arthur. Handbook of Etiquette. 1866 New York: Dick & Fitzgerald.
Maurice, U. The Tango. 1914 New York: Charles S. Pratt.
Narret, Charles. 6 que l’on dit pendant une Contredanse. 1873 Paris: E. Dentu.
Peacock, Francis. Practice of Dancing. 1805 Aberdeen: J. Chalmers & Co.
Polkarius. Almanach Manuel de la Danse. 1860 Paris: DeLarue.
Quadrille and Cotillion Panorama. 1822 R. & E. Williamson.
Quadrilles or Fashionable French Dances at Almacks. (c.1816) London: C. Wheatstone.
Saint-Léon, Michel A. La Sténochorégraphie. 1830 Paris: Bertauts Printer.
Saltator. Treatise on Dancing; and on Various other Matters. 1802 Boston: The Commercial Gazette.
Saltator. A Treatise on Dancing…Country Dances and Cotillions. 1807 Boston.
Scott, Edward. Dancing as an Art and Pastime. 1892 London: George Bell & Sons.
Strathy, Alexander. Elements of the Art of Dancing. 1822 Edinburgh: F. Pillans and Oliver & Boyd.
T. Erp Sichore. A Treatise on the Elements of Dancing. 1891 San Francisco: The Bancroft Company.
Théleur, E. A. Letters on Dancing. 1831 London: Sherwood & Co.
The Ball Room Companion. unknown London: George Routledge & Sons, Camden Press.
The Black Crook. 1866 Assorted articles.
The Fashionable Quadrille Preceptors. By a Professor of Dancing from the King’s Theatre. unknown London: Page & Son Publishers.
The Tri-Colored Quadrilles. unknown New York: J. L. Hewitt. (with music)
Whale, Henry. Homage à Taglioni: Quadrilles & Dances. 1836 Philadelphia: Published by the Compiles/Musical Fund Hall.
Wilkinson, Professor. Dancing Without an Instructor. In work by T. Erp Sichore. 1904 Philadelphia: David McKay.
Wilson, Thomas. A Companion to the Ballroom. 1816 London: Butten, Wittaker, & Co.
Wilson, Thomas. The Complete System of English Country Dancing. 1821 London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones.
Willock, H. D. Ball-Room Guide. c. 1860 London: F. Pitman.

 

Back To Top

History of Dance: 20th Century

Original Sources

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
Orthwine, Rudolf. 25 Years of American Dance, in Dance Magazine. 1951 New York: Dance Magazine.
Alford, Lucy. Break Dancing. 1984 England: Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. Original edition.
Anderson, John Murray. Social Dancing of Today. 1914 New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Arnold, Luis. Flamenco Styling for the Latin-American Dances. 1969 San Francisco: Little City Lithographers.
Arthur Murray Dance Schools: An Invitation to Dance. 1980 Ballroom Dance Service.
Bense, Jacques. Les Danses en vogue. 1967 Paris: Editions Bornemann.
Blackford, Andy. Disco Dancing Tonite. 1979 London: Octopus Books, Ltd.
Blake, Dick. Discothèque Dances. 1965 New York. Cleveland: The World Co.
Boucher, P. and P. Gaffet. Toutes les Danses pour tous. 1928 Paris: Amand Girard.
Buckman, Peters. Let’s Dance. Social dance 1200 to present. 1979 New York: Penguin Books.
Butler, Albert and Josephine. Addendum to Encyclopedia of Social Dance. 1500 to present 1980 New York: Albert Butler Ballroom Dance Service.
Butler, Albert and Josephine. Encyclopedia of Social Dance. 1971 New York: Albert Butler.
Butler, Albert and Josephine. How to Dance the Twist. 1962 New York: Albert Butler School of Dancing.
Calabria, Frank M. Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad. 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University, Popular Press.
Casani, Santos. Casani’s Self-Tutor of Ballroom Dancing. 1927 London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.
Castle, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon. Modern Dancing. 1914 New York: The World Syndicate Company.
Castle, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon. 3 Modern Dances: One Step, Hesitation, & Tango. 1914 Camden, New Jersey: Victor Talking Machine Co.
Cheron, J. and Washington Lopp. Encyclopedia mondaine & la Danse. 1903 Paris: Lahure, Imprimeur-Editeur.
Clendenen, Leslie F. Cakewalks. 1900 St. Louis: published by the author.
Coll, Charles J. and Gabrielle Rosiere. Dancing Made Easy. 1919 New York: Edward J. Clode, 1922 edition.
Collier’s. Uncle Henry on the New Dancing, in work by T. Erp Sichore. 1923 Collier’s.
Crozier, Gladys Beattie. The Tango and How to Dance It. 1913 London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd.
D’Albert, Charles. The Encyclopedia of Dancing. 1920 London: T. M. Middleton & Company.
D’Egville, Geoffrey. How and What to Dance. 1919 London: C. Authur Pearson, Ltd., 1941 Edition.
Dancing Times. 1919 – 1924 unidentified
Dannett, Sylvia & Frank R. Rachel. Down Memory Lane: Arthur Murray’s Picture Story of Social Dancing. 1954 New York: Greenburg.
Danse et de Maintien de Belgique, l’Union Professionnelle des Profs. de; Guide de Danseur: 1924-1925. 1924 Bruxelles. Anvers: Congrès International de Bruxelles.
Dare, Phyllis. Tips for the Tango, from Strand Magazine, in Caffin Dancing and Dancers of Today. 1914; 1921 Strand Magazine: 1914.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1921. (Caffin)
Davis, Helen. Guide to Dancing. 1923; reprint 1934 Chicago: The Charles T. Power Co.
De Forrest, Romayne. How to Dance & What to Dance. 1930 USA. Shrewsbury Co.
Dodworth, Allan. Dancing. 1900 Appendix.
Eicher, Lillian. Book of Etiquette, vol. 2. 1965 New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Engel, Lyle Kenyon. The Fred Astaire Dance Book. 1965 New York: Pocket Books, Inc.
How to Dance the One Step. unknown Feldman’s.
Ford, Henry Mr. and Mrs. Good Morning. 1926 Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Co. G. B.,
E. P. Ltd.
Gaskell, Ethel. Dancing Do’s and Don’ts. 1925 London: Methuen & Company, Ltd.
Giovannini, Francesco. Il Ballo. 1914 Milano: Editore Libraio della Real Casa.
Giraudet, E. Traité de la Dance. 1900 Paris: (6341 danses A-M)
Glendenen, F. Leslie. Dance Mad or The Dances of the Day. 1914 St. Louis: Arcade Print Company.
Guide du Danseur. 1924 Congrès International de Bruxelles.
Haile, Laure. I Love to Dance. 1983 Ballroom Dancing.
Hanson, Kitt. Disco Fever. 1978 New York: The New American Library, Inc.
Harris, Jane A., Anne Pittmann and Marlys S. Waller. Dance a While. 1968 Burgess Publishing Company.
Hoepli, Manuali, and F. Giovannini. Balli D’Oggi. 1914 Milano: Ulrico Hoepli.
Hopkins, J. S. The Tango and Other Up-to-Date Dances. 1914 New York: Saalfield Publishing Company.
Hostetler, Lawrence A. The Art of Social Dancing. 1934 New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc.
Javna, John. How to Jitterbug. 1984 New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Jazz, Jump, & Jive. 1988 London: JLH Promotions. Jenkins, Ltd.
Jerome, Cliff. Black Bottom. 1926 New York: T. B. Harms, Inc.
Keller, Kate Van Winkle, and Genevieve Shimer. The Playford Ball, in Studies in Dance History vol. 1, no. 2, Spring/Summer. 1990 Pennington, New Jersey: Society of Dance History Scholars.
Kobal, John. Gotta Sing Gotta Dance. 1970 London/New York/Sydney/Toronto: The Hamlyn Group.
Kollmar, Kerry and Melody Mason. Roller Disco Dancing. 1979 New York: Sterling Co.
Lawrence, John. How Hollywood Dances. 1940 Los Angeles: Ambassador Station. (illustrated)
Lee, Betty. Dancing. 1936 New York: Radio City, NYC, Pioneer Publications, Inc.
Long Odds and Other Dances from the Preston Collection. Transcribed and edited by Pat Wood. 1958 London: the English Folkdance & Song Society.
Lustgarten, Karen. The Complete Guide to Disco Dancing. 1978 New York: Warner Books.
Lustgarten, Karen. The Complete Guide to Touch Dancing. 1979 New York: Warner Books.
Marsh, Agnes, and Lucile Marsh. Text Book of Social Dancing. 1933 New York: J. Fischer & Brother.
McDonagh, Don. Dance Fever. 1979 New York: Random House, Inc.
Moore, Alex. Ballroom Dancing. 1936; reprint 1948 London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Murray, Arthur. How to Become a Good Dancer. 1954 New York: Simon & Schuster.
Newman, Albert W. Dances of Today. 1914 Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company.
Peck, Abe. Dancing Madness. 1976 New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday.
Peters-Wright, Anita P., and Dexter Wright. How to Dance. 1942 New York: The New Home Library.
Ray, Lillian. Modern Ballroom Dancing. 1934 Chicago: Franklin Publishing Co.
Richardson, Philip J. S. A History of English Ballroom Dancing (1910-1945). 1945 Herbert Jenkins, Ltd.
Richardson, J. S. The Guide to the Tango. 1914 London: Francis, Day & Hunter.
Scott, Edward. Dancing. 1905 London: George Bell & Sons.
Scott, Edward. Dancing: Artistic & Social. Revised & Enlarged. 1919 London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
Sharp, Cecil J. The Country Dance Book. Part I (1909) and Part II (1911). 18 country dances. 1909, 1911; reprint 1972 Wakefield, Ltd.
Sharp, Cecil J. The Country Dance Book. 1909; reprint 1934 England: Novello & Company.
Shaw, Lloyd. The Round Dance Book. A century of Waltzes. 1949 Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Shomer, Louis. How to Dance (including Suzi-Q, Swing Waltz, Trucking). 1940 New York: Book-a-Mag Co., Inc.
Shultz, Mari-Helen. May I Have This Dance? 1986 New York: Vantage Press.
Silva, Art. How to Dance the Rock and Roll! 1958 Hollywood: Art Silva.
Smith, Kate. The Art of Dancing. 1925 London: Methuen & Company, Ltd. The English Folkdance & Song Society.
The Hullabaloo Discothèque Dance Book. 1967 New York: Scholastic Book Services.
Thomas, Bob. Let’s Dance with Marge & Gower Champion. 1954 New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Thompson, Sydney. Old Time Dance Book. 1956 London: Burke Ltd.
Twelve Country Dances from The Dancing Master by J. Playford. 1929; reprint 1963 London: 1929.
Worthington, Ohio: Willow Press. 1963. USA edition.
Veloz and Yolanda. Tango & Rumba. 1938 New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers.
Walker, Caroline. Modern Dances: Tango, Castle Walk, Hesitation Waltz, One-Step, Dream Waltz. 1914 Chicago: Saul Brothers.
Walker, Caroline. The Modern Dances. 1914 Chicago: Saul Brothers.
Warner, Charle. Traité de Danse (including 1-Step, Fox-Trot, Quick-Step, Slow-Fox, Fox-Blues). 1915 unidentified
White, Betty. How to Mambo. 1955 New York: Van Rees Press.
Whitman, Walter and Victor Silvester. The Complete Old Time Dancer. 1967 London: Herbert.
Wilson, Margerite. Dancing. 1914 Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company.
Wirth, A. C. Modern Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master. 1902 Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Company.

Photocopies

AUTHOR/TITLE DATE PUBLISHER
ASCAP Hit Tunes. 1892-1963 New York.
Arnold, Luis. The Three Rumbas. 1977  
Arnold, Luis. Bronze Merchants and Silver Merengue, From Arthur Murray Dance Notebook unknown unidentified
Arnold, Luis. Salsa-The Latin Disco. unknown unidentified
Arnold, Luis. Dance Data. 1978 unidentified
The Art of Dancing. 1935 United States: Johnson Smith & Company.
Ballroom Teacher Training Manual. Grades I & II.  1973 Dance Masters of America, Inc.
Ballroom Teacher Training Manual. Grade III. 1973 Dance Masters of America, Inc.
Black Bottom. 1920s unidentified
Bonomo, Joe. Improve Your Dancing. 1938 Hollywood.
Caffin, Caroline and Charles H. Dancing and Dancers of Today. 1912 New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
Cree, A. M. Handbook of Ballroom Dancing. 1920 London: John Lane.
Charles, D. Toutes Les Dances Modernes. 1920s Paris: S. Bornemann.
Cruz, Carlos. The Modern Ballroom Tango. 1925 New York.
Dancing Times, 1919-1920; 1922-1924. 1919-20;
1922-24		 Magazines.
Giraudet, E. La Danse. (c.1910) Paris: Société de la Gaieté Française.
Hofer, Mari Ruef. Polite and Social Dances. 1917 Chicago : Clayton F. Summy Company.
Jattefaux, M. Apprenons à danser. 1920s Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères.
King’s Booklet. Dancing, in Caffin, Dancing and Dancers of Today. 1912 New York: Wehman Bros.
Levitte, L. Les 15 Danses Modernes. 1920 Paris.
Peters-Wright, Anita, and Dexter. The Big Apple. 1938 Published by the authors.
Marinoff, Serge. The Charleston. 1925 Chicago: published by the author.
Homeservice Town Magazine. 1938 Town Magazine.
Maurice. The Tango and the New Dances. 1914 New York: Charles S. Pratt.
Milton, Bert. How to Behave in a Ballroom, in Caffin, Dancing and Dancers of Today. 1914; 1921 Boston: A. M. Davis Company. 1914.
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co. 1921 (Caffin)
Mouvet, Maurice. Maurice’s Art of Dancing. 1915 New York: G. Shirmer.
Murray, Arthur. How to Become a Good Dancer. 1954 New York: Simon & Shuster.
Murray, Arthur. The Modern Dances. 1925 New York: published by the author.
Murray, Arthur. The Modern Dances- Part II & III, (advanced course). 1925 New York: published by the author.
Origin and Development of the Lindyhop 1927-1941 Student paper.
Pavlova, Anna. Castle Dances, in Ladies’ Home Journal. 1914 Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co.
Pavlova, Anna. Social Dances, in Ladies’ Home Journal. 1915 Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co.
Sheafe, Alfonso Josephs. The Fascinating Boston. 1913 Boston: The Boston Music Company.
Williams, Charles. Cotton Needs Picken. (Article) 1928 New York: New York Public Library.
Williams, Charles. Charleston. (Article) 1928 New York: New York Public Library.

Back To Top