The Cotillons, Made Plain and Easy (Hurst, 1769)

Dance manual/reference by Thomas Hurst, Theatre Royal Drury-Lane (pupil and assistant to Mr. Grimaldi, Ballet-Master). Printed for the Author; sold by Thornley & Sutton (Russel-Street, Covent-Garden), Mr. Bennett (No.61, near St. Andrew's Church, Holborn), and at all the Music-Shops. Price TWO SHILLINGS. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1769-Hurst-Cotillons_(Goog).txt (Google-scanned edition, 29.4 KB OCR). SIGNIFICANCE: earliest printed English-language articulation of the 'anti-French-stage-step' cotillon pedagogy following Longman 1768 (LOC-1768-LONGMAN) -- Hurst's preface explicitly frames the book as a rival to the French cotillon books whose 'Technical Terms, used only by the Performers of the Theatres' Ladies and Gentlemen cannot understand. Simplified scheme: 14 fixed 'Changes' shared across all 16 Cotillons, with each Cotillon contributing a distinctive Figure; performance is cued by a bar/strain-marking notation (single/double/treble line with dots for repetitions). 16 Cotillons with bilingual French/English titles (e.g. Le Medecin Extravagante / The Mad Doctor); Cotillons II and III were issued without titles in the book and are DEFERRED from this pass (OCR confirms their figure-text is present but title-heads are blank). 14 titled Cotillons ingested. (1769). Imported from local collection.