Historical SourcePublic Domain
Paine's Fourth Set of Quadrilles — containing La Chaine Anglaise (Figure 1), En Avant Deux / Chassez Dechassez / Traversez (Figure 2), La NonChalant (Figure 3), La Nouvelle Pastorale (Figure 4), and the Finale Grande Promenade with Chassez Croises Huit (Figure 5); plus The Brussells Waltz coda. By James Paine, c.1815, London.
Publisher: James Paine (Professor of Dancing) / London, c.1815. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1815_Paines_4th.txt — 25 lines OCR; 1-page bilingual French/English sheet music + figures print with Paine's engraved signature 'PAINE' as proof of genuineness per the title-page notice: 'Those wishing to have PAINE of LANCE's Quadrilles, are requested to observe that his Signatures is written on each. All others are counterfeit, which will incur a SERIOUS ACTION of the COPYrIGHTS reserved to him.' First-corpus DIRECT PRIMARY Paine source — earliest extant Paine-authored quadrille-set publication in the corpus, providing unambiguous 1815 attribution for the Paine quadrille authorship narrative referenced in Coulon 1844, Pollock 1828c, Lowe 1838, Mitchell c.1842, and the later 'Paine canon' tradition. The Fourth Set (distinct from the First Set F0001..F0006) is a 5-figure bilingual French/English instruction sheet with the Finale including the 'Grand Promenade' and 'Chassez Eight' coda. Historically essential as the anchor point for Paine's authorship — Paine was the principal London ballroom dancing-master and quadrille-set composer of the Regency era, whose First Set became the pan-European standard 'Quadrille' canon codified in Almack's and later Paine-canon quadrilles.Year: 1815Family: paine-4thCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by James Paine (Professor of Dancing) / London, c.1815. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1815_Paines_4th.txt — 25 lines OCR; 1-page bilingual French/English sheet music + figures print with Paine's engraved signature 'PAINE' as proof of genuineness per the title-page notice: 'Those wishing to have PAINE of LANCE's Quadrilles, are requested to observe that his Signatures is written on each. All others are counterfeit, which will incur a SERIOUS ACTION of the COPYrIGHTS reserved to him.' First-corpus DIRECT PRIMARY Paine source — earliest extant Paine-authored quadrille-set publication in the corpus, providing unambiguous 1815 attribution for the Paine quadrille authorship narrative referenced in Coulon 1844, Pollock 1828c, Lowe 1838, Mitchell c.1842, and the later 'Paine canon' tradition. The Fourth Set (distinct from the First Set F0001..F0006) is a 5-figure bilingual French/English instruction sheet with the Finale including the 'Grand Promenade' and 'Chassez Eight' coda. Historically essential as the anchor point for Paine's authorship — Paine was the principal London ballroom dancing-master and quadrille-set composer of the Regency era, whose First Set became the pan-European standard 'Quadrille' canon codified in Almack's and later Paine-canon quadrilles. (1815). Imported from local collection.