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• Dance -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
• Ballroom dancing -- Europe -- History
• Round dancing -- Europe -- History
• Waltz -- Europe -- History
• Dance -- France -- History
• Dance -- Germany -- History
• Dance -- Greece -- History
• Dance -- Italy -- History

• The dance; an historical survey of dancing in Europe (Halton & Truscott Smith, ltd.;, 1924), by Cecil J. Sharp and A. P. Oppé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La pazzia del ballo (La Musica Moderna, 1934), by Simeon Zuccolo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A study of the medieval dance (1916), by Lucy Belle Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Les polkeuses; poème étique sur les célébrités de la polka (P. Masgana, 1844), by Charles Narrey and H. Druard (page images at HathiTrust)

• La danse au théâtre (E. Dentu, 1890), by Berthe Bernay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Vestris : le "diou" de la danse et sa famille, 1730-1808 : d'après des rapports de police et des documents inédits (Société du Mercure de France, 1908), by Gaston Capon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Geschichte des tanzes in Deutschland : Beitrag zur deutschen sitten, litteratur und musikgeschchte (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Franz Magnus Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des tanzes in Deutschland : Beitrag zur deutschen sitten-, litteratur- und musikgeschichte (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Franz Magnus Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Tanzes (Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1926), by John Schikowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Geschichte des Tanzes (Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1926), by John Schikowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dramatische Orchestik der Hellenen (B. G. Teubner, 1898), by Christian Kirchhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La danse grecque antique d'après les monuments figurés... Analyses chronophotographiques obtenues avec les appareils de...Marey; dessins de A. Collambar et de l'auteur. (Hachette & Cie., 1896), by Maurice Emmanuel and A. Collombar (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Chanteurs, musiciens et danseurs. (P. Lebigre-Duquesne, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient art and ritual (Henry Holt and Co. ;, 1913), by Jane Ellen Harrison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dance; historic illustrations of dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D., by an antiquary. (John Bale, Sons, & Danielson, ltd., 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La danza greca. (Ed. Fratelli Serra, 1910), by Lorenzo Parodi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The antique Greek dance after sculptured and painted figures (J. Lane Co., 1916), by Maurice Emmanuel and A. Collombar (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Battaglia; balletto del secolo XVII, descritto da un anonimo e rimesso in luce da un codice manoscritto ([Stab. tipografico Galletti e Cocci], 1918), by Vittorio Ricci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mastro da Ballo (in Italian), by Ercole Santucci Perugino (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Descriptions of English and American country dances : music and description of European games and dances (Neva L. Boyd, 1930), by Neva Leona Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Folk-dances of Denmark : containing seventy-three dances (G. Schirmer ;, 1915), by Elizabeth Burchenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folkelig vals, sønderhoningdans, fannikedans, manøsk brudedans, vip sæt over, jysk polonæse, springfort, sveitrit. Med melodibilag. Trykt med understøttelse af Carlsbergfondet. (Det Schønbergske forlag, 1920), by Hakon Harald Grüner-Nielsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Folk-dances of Denmark; containing seventy-three dances (G. Schirmer ;, 1915), by Elizabeth Burchenal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Finlands svenska folkdiktning. (Helsingfors, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les quadrilles à la cour de Napoléon 1er (1806-1813) (H. Daragon, 1904), by Frédéric Masson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Danse et musique romantiques. (Le Goupy, 1927), by Marcel Bouteron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voz de alarma a los sacerdotes y a los padre de familia sobre los males físicos y morales de los bailes modernos. (Impr. y Libreria de Valls, 1858), by vicomte de Brieux Saint-Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la valse au tango; la danse mondaine du 1er Empire à nos jours. (Devambez, 1920), by Jacques Boulenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Der künstlerische Tanz (C.F.W. Siegel, 1922), by Werner Suhr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Volkstänze im deutschen Mittelalter. Nach zwei Vorträgen, gehalten im saale des Berliner Handwerker-vereins (C.G. Lüderitz, 1868), by Wilhelm Emil Angerstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Tanzes in Deutschland. Beitrag zur Deutschen Sitten-, Literatur- und Musikgeschichte. Nach den Quellen zum erstenmal bearb. und mit alten Tanzliedern und Musikproben hrsg. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1886), by Franz Magnus Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tanzbuben. (J. Zwissler, 1919), by Max Tepp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An analysis of country dancing, wherein all the figures used in that polite amusement are rendered familiar by engraved lines; containing also, directions for composing almost any number of figures to one tune, with some entire new reels; together with the complete etiquette on the ball-room. (Printed by W.Calvert for T. Craft, 1822), by Thomas Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures ... (John Lane company;, 1916), by Maurice Emmanuel and Harriet Jean Beauley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Tanz in der Antike (M. Niemeyer, 1926), by Fritz Weege (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The arts in Greece; three essays (Longmans, Green and Co., 1923), by F. A. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• La danse grecque antique d'après les monuments figurés. (Hachett et cie, 1896), by Maurice Emmanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Saltationibus Graecorum capita quinque (A. Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker), 1913), by Kurt Latte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kordax, archäologische studien zur geschichte eines antiken tanzes und zum ursprung der griechischen komödie (Beck, 1910), by Heinz Schnabel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day (J.Lane, 1918), by Helen Moller and Curtis Dunham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates (John Lane company;, 1918), by Helen Moller and Curtis Dunham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De saltationibus Graecorum armatis. (A. Toepelmann, 1913), by Kurt Latte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orchestique grecque (Paris, 1895), by Maurice Emmanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio qua demonstratur cantu et saltatione apud Graecos incunabula culturae constituta esse (Literis Staritii, Typogr. Univers., 1829), by Karl Wilhelm Glaeser and Ernst Ludwig Wigand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'orchestrique grecque; étude de ses mouvements d'après les monuments figures. (Rodopi, 1895), by Maurice Emmanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fêtes et courtisanes de la Grèce : supplément aux Voyages d'Anarchsis et d'Antenor. (Paris : Chez les principaux libraires, MDCCCXXI [1821], 1821), by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Chaussard, Jean-François Garneray, Etienne François de Lantier, and J.-J. Barthélemy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le danze dei Greci descritte e pubblicate pel faustissimo imeneo di Sua Altezza imperiale e reale il serenissimo principe Ranieri, arciduca d'Austria, ecc. ecc. ecc. e vicerè del regno Lombardo-Veneto con Sua Altezza serenissima la principessa Elisabetta di Savoja-Cariguano ecc. ecc. (Dall'Imperiale regia stamperia, 1820), by Robustiano Gironi, Paolo Fumagalli, and Italy) Imperiale regia stamperia (Milan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rinnce na Eirann. National dances of Ireland. (A. S. Barnes, 1924), by Elizabeth Burchenal and Emma Howells Burchenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rinnce na Eirann = National dances of Ireland, containing twenty-five traditional Irish dances collected from original sources in Ireland by J. M. Lang ... with full directions for performance and numerous illustrations and diagrams (G. Schirmer, 1929), by Elizabeth Burchenal and Emma Howells Burchenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rinnce na hÉireann (New York, N.Y., 1907), by Gaelic League of the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)

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