Dances of the Olden Time

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Excerpt from Dances of the Olden Time: Arranged for the Pianoforte Chief among old English dances is the country dance. This retained favour for three or four centuries, and was only ousted from popular approval by the quadrille and the lancers, to which it has many points of similarity. In regard to its name it must be distinctly stated that it derives nothing from Contra-danse, the French equivalent. This term is, merely a. Foreign rendering of the English word, and is not to be taken as indicating the position of the dancers at the commencement - that is, opposite each other. Our English country dance was one originally performed by the English rustic people, afterwards becoming a favourite in the ball room, where it gave as much enjoyment as on the village green. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.