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Volume 2, Number 6, 1988-91
'Damnes' as described by Domenico, Cornazano and Guglielmo
D.R. Wilson, pp 3-8. Download pdf (1 MB)
The puzzle of the squiggle
Ian Gatiss, pp 9-11. Download pdf (4 MB)
Skill and invention in the Renaissance ballroom
Anne Daye, pp 12-15. Download pdf (750 KB)
Women and dancing after the Restoration
Anne Cottis, pp 16-20. Download pdf (1 MB)
The dancing-master, a satyr
Anon, pp 21-23. Download pdf (230 KB)
Early dance and education in the 1980s
Judy Smith, pp 24-28. Download pdf (500 KB)
Volume 2, Number 5, 1986-87
Dancing in the Inns of Court
D.R. Wilson, pp 3-16. Download pdf (900 KB)
"E poi se piglieno per mano" - a brief study of hand holds in 15th and 16th century portraits
Diana Cruickshank, pp 17-20. Download pdf (380 KB)
Reflections on basse dance source material, a dancer's review (Part I)
Peggy Dixon, pp 20-29. Download pdf (800KB)
The art of good dancing - noble birth and skilled nonchalance. England 1580-1630
Judy Smith, pp 30-32. Download pdf (425 KB)
'Il Bianco Fiore' by Cesare Negri
D.R. Wilson, pp 33-35. Download pdf (370 KB)
The problem of Negri's term fioretto spezzato
Anne Daye, p 36. Download pdf (160 KB)
Book Reviews
The Allemande, the Baletto and the Tanz by Richard Hudson, reviewed by Ian Gatiss, pp 20-21.
The Life and Works of John Weaver by Richard Ralph, reviewed by Anne Cottis, p 21.
Volume 2, Number 4, 1985
A coranto with a diagram: a note on the text
D.R. Wilson, p 4. Download pdf (130 KB)
The development of the French basse danse
D.R. Wilson, pp 5-12. Download pdf (710 KB)
From word to movement (with original text of Furioso all' Italiana and transcription of the music by Diana Porteus)
Anne Daye, pp 13-23. Download pdf (1 MB)
Reflections on basse dance source material, a dancer's review (Part II)
Peggy Dixon, pp 24-27. Download pdf (490 KB)
Foreign elements in Irish 18th century dance music
Joan Rimmer, pp 28-35. Download pdf (590 KB)
Book Reviews
Patterns of Fashion by Janet Arnold, reviewed by Suzi Clarke, p 12.
Cornazano, The Book on the Art of Dancing translated by Madeleine Inglehearn and Peggy Forsyth, reviewed by John Guthrie, p 36.
Historical Dances for the Theatre by John Guthrie, reviewed by Richard McGrady , p 36.
Dance History, a Methodology for Study edited by Janet Adshead and June Layson, reviewed by Anne Cottis, p 37.
One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes edited by Michael Raven, reviewed by Diana Porteus, pp 37-38.
Volume 2, Number 3, 1983
Theory and practice in 15th century French Basse Danse
D.R. Wilson, pp 1-2. Download pdf (220 KB)
A coranto with a diagram
Priska Frank, pp 3-5. Download pdf (290 KB)
Notes on a rare dance book
Diana Porteus, pp 6-9. Download pdf (630 KB)
Notes on the interpretation of Baroque dances
John Guthrie, pp 10-11. Download pdf (290 KB)
The education to be derived from dancing in the 18th century
Anne Cottis, pp 13-19. Download pdf (780 KB)
Volume 2, Number 2, 1982
Lorin's introduction to his First Book of Contredances, with the dance Christchurch Bells
Gill Plant and Lillian Pleydell, pp 3-13. Download pdf (1 Mb)
Rameau: "Nouvelle Methode" (Final instalment)
Ellis A. Rogers, pp 14-29. Download pdf (1.1 Mb)
The dances of William Jones
Julian Pilling, pp 30-37. Download pdf (910 Kb)
Book Reviews
The Dances of Court and Theater - The French Noble Style, 1690-1725 by Wendy Hilton, reviewed by Morag Grant, pp 38-41.
The Maner of Dauncynge by Eileen White and Kathy Mitchel, reviewed by Morag Grant, pp 42-43.
Volume 2, Number 1, 1980-81
The country dances
Alan Salter, pp 3-8. Download pdf (390 KB)
Dancing in church buildings
J.G. Davies, pp 9-12. Download pdf (350 KB)
Squilini Cascarda from Il Ballarino by Fabritio Caroso 1581
Nathalie Dolmetsch, pp 13-16. Download pdf (200 KB)
The Reyen in a seventeenth-century Dutch Play
Joan Rimmer, pp 17-28. Download pdf (580 KB)
The lady of the ring - the historical morris II
Julian Pilling, pp 29-33. Download pdf (310 KB)
Rameau: "Nouvelle Methode" (Part 3)
Ellis A. Rogers, pp 38-51. Download pdf (430 KB)
Butter'd Pease
Julian Pilling, p 52. Download pdf (85 KB)