The Compleat Country Dancing-Master/Book 1
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The
Compleat Country Dancing-Master.
Volume the Fourth.
Being a Collection of all the Celebrated Country Dances now in Vogue.
Perform’d at Court, the Theatres, Masquerades, and Publick Balls.
With Proper Tunes and Directions to each Dance.
The Tunes fitted for the Violin, Hoboy, or German Flute.
The 4th Edition.
London. Printed for I. Walsh, in Catharine Street, in the Strand.
Price Bound 3s 6d
An Explanation of the several Characters us’d in this Book.
- D. stands for Double. A Double is four Steps forward and backward, closing both Feet.
- S. stands for
— — —Single. A Single is two Steps, closing both Feet. - Set and turn S. Is a Single to one Hand, and a Single to the other, and turn single.
- Wo. stands for Woman.
- We. stands for
— — —Women. - Cu. stands for
— — —Couple. - Co. stands for
— — —Contrary. - The Figure half round, is the Hey half round.
- The whole Figure, is the Hey all four round.
- Proper, is when the Men and Women are on their own Sides.
- · denotes the Strain of a Tune play’d once over.
- : denotes
— — —the Strain twice over. - ∴ denotes
— — —the Strain thrice over. - ☉ stands for the Mens Places, in the Figure on the Top of each Page.
- ☽ stands for
— — —the Womens Places, in the Figure on the Top of each Page.
An Alphabetical Table of all the Dances contain’d in this Volume.