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A Concise and Easy Method of Learning the Figuring Part of Country Dances, by way of Characters. To which is prefix'd, the Figure of the Minuet (Dukes, London 1752)
Publisher: Robert Dukes, Dancing Master / Printed by subscription, London 1752. Price One Guinea. Dedicated to The Right Honourable The Earl of Hardwicke (Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor 1737-1756), The Right Honourable The Earl Granville (John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, Lord President of the Council 1751-1763), His Grace The Duke of Grafton (Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain 1724-1757), and The Right Honourable Lord Anson (George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty 1751-1756, 1757-1762) -- four of the most prominent Pelhamite Whig ministers of the Newcastle-Pelham government. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1752-Dukes-Concise_(Gale).txt (Gale ECCO scan, 16.8 KB OCR). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Dukes's treatise is a mid-18c London country-dance pedagogical treatise issued at the height of the Walsh-era publishing-competition period. Dukes pitches his method to 'Ladies and Gentlemen' who wish to learn country-dance figuring 'without the trouble of running, skipping, balancing, or turning' -- the 'concise and easy' framing positioning the work as an explicit simplification of the earlier Feuillet-character system codified by Weaver 1706 / Essex 1710-1715 / Pemberton 1711. The prefixed Figure of the Minuet (the couple-dance exemplar used to anchor all country-dance figuring) aligns with the 1720s-1750s English minuet-first teaching pedagogy documented by Tomlinson 1735 (LOC-1735-TOMLINSON) and Tomlinson 1744 (LOC-1744-TOMLINSON). Bridges the Walsh 1748 + Davis 1748 + Walsh-Caledonian 1748 country-dance publishing cluster and Cahusac 1754 (LOC-1754-CAHUSAC) in the mid-18c London country-dance pedagogical lineage. Pelhamite Whig ministerial dedicatees (Hardwicke/Granville/Grafton/Anson) confirm Dukes's social-standing claim as a dancing-master to the governmental elite. Has_Step_Detail = No: the OCR is heavily corrupted by engraved character-plate overlap and the figure-content tables are not extractable; only title-page, dedicatee list, and fragmentary preface prose are OCR-recoverable at this pass. Registered for CORPUS COMPLETENESS -- matches the LOC-1721-WEAVER-ANATOMICAL / LOC-1760-NOVERRE precedent for figureless theoretical syllabi.Year: 1752Family: dukesCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Robert Dukes, Dancing Master / Printed by subscription, London 1752. Price One Guinea. Dedicated to The Right Honourable The Earl of Hardwicke (Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor 1737-1756), The Right Honourable The Earl Granville (John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, Lord President of the Council 1751-1763), His Grace The Duke of Grafton (Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain 1724-1757), and The Right Honourable Lord Anson (George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty 1751-1756, 1757-1762) -- four of the most prominent Pelhamite Whig ministers of the Newcastle-Pelham government. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1752-Dukes-Concise_(Gale).txt (Gale ECCO scan, 16.8 KB OCR). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Dukes's treatise is a mid-18c London country-dance pedagogical treatise issued at the height of the Walsh-era publishing-competition period. Dukes pitches his method to 'Ladies and Gentlemen' who wish to learn country-dance figuring 'without the trouble of running, skipping, balancing, or turning' -- the 'concise and easy' framing positioning the work as an explicit simplification of the earlier Feuillet-character system codified by Weaver 1706 / Essex 1710-1715 / Pemberton 1711. The prefixed Figure of the Minuet (the couple-dance exemplar used to anchor all country-dance figuring) aligns with the 1720s-1750s English minuet-first teaching pedagogy documented by Tomlinson 1735 (LOC-1735-TOMLINSON) and Tomlinson 1744 (LOC-1744-TOMLINSON). Bridges the Walsh 1748 + Davis 1748 + Walsh-Caledonian 1748 country-dance publishing cluster and Cahusac 1754 (LOC-1754-CAHUSAC) in the mid-18c London country-dance pedagogical lineage. Pelhamite Whig ministerial dedicatees (Hardwicke/Granville/Grafton/Anson) confirm Dukes's social-standing claim as a dancing-master to the governmental elite. Has_Step_Detail = No: the OCR is heavily corrupted by engraved character-plate overlap and the figure-content tables are not extractable; only title-page, dedicatee list, and fragmentary preface prose are OCR-recoverable at this pass. Registered for CORPUS COMPLETENESS -- matches the LOC-1721-WEAVER-ANATOMICAL / LOC-1760-NOVERRE precedent for figureless theoretical syllabi. (1752). Imported from local collection.