Ballet Album, sheet music book for classical piano (Allan & Co, Melbourne, no date) Used softcover book, 65 pages. Covers are grubby, spine worn with a few small tears, corners creased, pages are very good. Contents are: Dance de la Poupee, from "Coppelia" (Delibes); Dance of the Flutes, from "Nutcracker Suite" (Tschaikowsky); Dance of the Hours, from "La Gioconda" (Ponchielli); Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, from "Nutcracker Suite" (Tschaikowsky); Dance of the Swans (Tschaikowsky); Dance of the Little Swans (Tschaikowsky); Dutch Dance (Blore); Entracte No. 2, from "Rosamunde" (Schubert); Gavotte (Gossec); Gavotte in A (Gluck); Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms); March of the Toys (Tschaikowsky); Mazurka, from "Coppelia" (Delibes); Mignon Gavotte (Thomas); Minuet, from "Don Juan" (Mozart); Minuet (Boccherini); Minuet in G No. 2 (Beethoven); Naila Waltz, from "La Source" (Delibes); Papillon (Breton); Rosamunde Ballet No. 1 (Schubert); Scarf Dance, from "La Source" (Delibes); The Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tschaikowsky); The Swan Lake, scene from the ballet (Tschaikowsky); The Swan Lake, waltz from the ballet (Tschaikowsky); Theme, from "Invitation to the Dance" (Weber); Trepac, from "Nutcracker Suite" (Tschaikowsky); Valse des Fleurs, from "Nutcracker Suite" (Tschaikowsky); Valse Lente, from "Coppelia" (Delibes); Violetta Polka (Strauss).
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The Nutcracker for Piano II -by- Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Sheet music book for classical piano. Selection and piano score by Miklos Mohay. Ballet music (K 293, Konemann Music Budapest, 1999) ISBN 9639155314. Used softcover book, 77 pages. Very good. Contents are: Valse; Marche; Petit galop des enfants et entree des parents; Scene dansante; Danse Grossvater; Valse des flocons de neige; Le Palais enchante de Confiturembourg; Divertissement: I: Le Chocolat (Dance espagnole); II: Le Cafe (Danse arabe); III: Le The (Danse chinoise); IV: Trepak (Dance russe); V: Danse des Mirlitons. Valse des fleurs; Pas de deux. Valse finale.
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A History Of Classical Ballet (Jade Books, London, 1983) ISBN 0907853676. Used hardcover book in d/j, 96 pages. Very good.
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Advanced Square Dance Figures of the West and Southwest by Lee Owens & Viola Ruth, A companion book to the author's 'American Square Dances of the West and Southwest;  each call timed and phrased exactly so that the movements, calls and music blend to a rhythmic, harmonious whole, in the best quadrille tradition (First Edition, 1950, Pacific Books, CA) good softcover book in d/j, 143pp, covered in clear contact, light foxing on endpapers.
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Dancing Down The Years, The Romantic Century In Australia by Nell Challingsworth. Dance is a mirror of history, and social dance is a measure of social history; the author has surveyed social dance in Australia up to 1900, supplemented with the music and steps of fashionable 19th Century dances and with splendid illustrations  reflecting the increasing opulence and confidence of colonial Australian society on all levels (The Craftsman Press, Melbourne, First edition, 1978) ISBN 0909108110. Used softcover book, 88 pages. Covers are lightly soiled, corners knocked, name and address written inside rear cover, else very good.
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Dancing on Skates by Richard Arnold. Basic steps for all recognised dances on both British & American rinks; clear line diagrams & b/w sequence photographs show the individual steps, turns & holds; more advanced dance sequences; features both free & figure skating, including Original Set Piece dances (1985 David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK) ISBN 0715386786. Used hardcover book in d/j, 128pp, light foxing on eps, d/j chipped at corners, else in very good condition.
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Folk Dances For Primer 1 To Standard 1. Sheet music book for piano with folk dance instructions for Junior Primers, Senior Primers and Standard One (Physical Education Branch of Department of Education, New Zealand Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1971) Used softcover book, 86 pages. Covers are creased on edges and corners. Heavy foxing and stains on edges of first few pages. Some pages creased in corners. Text is good. Contents are: A Wee Wee Woman; Cobbler's Dance; Helpmates; How do you do, My Partner?; Let the Feet Go Tramp; Lubin Loo; The Muffin Man; Oats and Beans and Barley Grow; On the Bridge of Avignon; Punchinello; Push the Business on; See Me Dance; Springtime on the Farm; This is the Way the Lady Rides; The Train; Washing Day; The Windmill; Zoo Game; Bohemian Dance - Annie; Captain Jinks; The Fair; Golliwogs; I See You; Jump Jim Crow; Lavender's Blue; Little Playmate Dance with Me; The Market Gate; My Pigeon House; Paw Paw Patch; Seven Pretty Maidens in a Ring; The Shoemaker's Dance; The Thread Follows the Needle; Will You Please be My Partner?; Winter's Warm (Girls and Boys Come Out to Play); Yankee Doodle; Chimes of Dunkirk; Circassian Circle; Cochin China; Come, let us be Joyful; Cumberland Long Eight (Haste to the Wedding); Galopede; Helston Furry; Rig-a-jig-jig; Round and Round the Village; Seven Jumps (Danish); Shoo, Fly; Skating Away.
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, Vaslav Nijinsky 1912, Thirty-Three Photographs by Baron Adolf de Meyer with an Essay by Jennifer Dunning and Contributions by Richard Buckle and Ann Hutchinson Guest, Photographs from Nijinsky's first choreographic work, taken at the time of the ballet's premiere for a limited edition album published in Paris at the outbreak of World War I; of the 250 albums originally printed, only 6 copies survive today; this volume reproduces these 33 photographs in their original sizes (Dance Books, London, 1983) ISBN 0903102781. Large format softcover book, 130 pages, in AS NEW condition.
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Live! Directions to the dances presented in the Dancing Circles folk dance workshops (1988 Dancing Circles, Somerset, UK) softcover booklet, 28pp, in excellent cond
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Modern Ballroom Dancing: History and Practice by Victor Silvester (Stanley Paul & Co, London, reprint, 1985) ISBN 0091498015 /0-09-149801-5. Used softcover book, 249 pages. Light foxing on edges of pages, else very good.
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The Borzoi Book Of Modern Dance by Margaret Lloyd, What is "modern dance", how does it differ from ballet and other forms of theatrical dancing - and who made it what it is? Miss Lloyd deals with all aspects of modern dance (as distinguished from classical ballet, tap, hoofing, Spanish and other regional, and ballroom dancing); an unabridged republication of the original edition published by Alfred A Knopf in 1949 (Dance Horizons, New York, reprint, 1974) ISBN 0871270234. Used softcover book, 356 pages + index, stains in lower corner, light foxing on page edges, else good.
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The Cecchetti Legacy, An Analysis And Description Of The Cecchetti Method Of Classical Ballet by Ann Hutchinson Guest & Toby Bennett (Dance Books, Alton, UK, 2007) ISBN 9781852731229. Used softcover book, 378 pages. Corners curled, else very good. This book weighs 1.1 kilograms.
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The Nutcracker Ballet by Jack Anderson. The complete history of the ballet from the story and Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's composition to the first performance in St Petersburg in 1892; the author analyses the ballet by examining the various designs, sets and costumes used throughout the years and by reviewing the interpretations of renowned choreographers and dancers; over 150 colour and monochrome illustrations (Books for Pleasure, Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1979) ISBN 0729601102 /0-7296-0110-2. Used hardcover book in d/j, 224 pages. D/j is creased, worn on edges and knocked in corners. Shelfwear to edges of boards. Some marks on edges of pages. All else is very good.
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The Scottish Country Dance Book, Book 1. Music arranged -by- J Michael Diack. Issued -by- The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Sheet music booklet for piano with dance instructions (Patterson's Publications, London, no date) Used softcover booklet, unpaginated. Very good. Contents are: Petronella (Reel); The Triumph (Reel); Circassian Circle (Reel); The Nut (Jig); Meg Merrilees (Reel); Flowers of Edinburgh (Reel); Strip the Willow -or- Drops of Brandy (Jig); Duke of Perth, Broun's Reel -or- Pease Strae (Reel); Rory O'More (Jog); Fight About The Fireside (Reel); Cumberland Reel (Jig); Merry Lads of Ayr (Reel).
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The Victor Book of Ballets and Ballet Music by Robert Lawrence, the stories and descriptions of the choreography and music of 130 ballets from Giselle and Les Sylphides to Fancy Free and Appalachian Spring;  the history of each of these ballets and their composition, including records of first performances, the stars, etc;  200+ portraits of the greatest dancers in their greatest roles, ballets photographed as they were being danced, of stage sets, etc;  over 400 quotations from musical scores;  an authoritative history of the ballet illustrated with old cuts;  illustrated with music and pictures throughout (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2nd printing, 1950) good hardcover book in poor d/j, 531pp, bookplate on fep. Weighs 1.25 kilograms.
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