A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, in two cantos, and plates illustrative of the art

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Date: 1810-01-01

Image 2 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DANCING, WITH AN APPROPRIATE POEM, IN TWO CANTOS, AND PLATES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ART. BY JAMES P. CASSIDY, PROFESSOR OF DANCING. “—Those move easiest...

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Image 4 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... RL 5042 TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF IRELAND , THIS TREATISE ON DANCING IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THEIR OBEDIENT AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, The AUTHOR. LC

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Image 5 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... TO THE READER. Notwithstanding the variety and multiplicity of elaborate works, written in our language, not only on the sciences, arts and trades, conducive to the good of society, but on the...

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Image 6 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... PREFACE. To supply this deficiency in English literature, to remove the obstacles which have hitherto prevented a more universal knowledge of this graceful accomplishment, to point out the necessity of its more...

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Image 7 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... An early initiation under the best instructors, an ambition of arriving at superior excellence, an experimental knowledge derived from professional practice for a series of years in the fashionable circles, a particular...

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Image 8 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... writing the Treatise on Dancing here presented to the Irish public. In this essay will be found a comprehensive and clear explanation of the definitions, precepts, and rules necessary for learning the...

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Date: 1810-01-01

Image 9 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... explained; and the whole interspersed with some pleasant anecdotes illustrative of the subject. Though clearness and precision have been particularly aimed at in describing the mechanical parts of the art; yet as...

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Image 10 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... subject, it Contains many very material observations and reflections on the various defects of children, with plain, easy and efficient modes of obviating all such defects whether natural or acquired. On the...

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Image 11 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... CONTENTS. BOOK I. HISTORY AND THEORY OF DANCING. CHAP. PAGE I. On the Necessity of Exercise, &c. 1 II. Definition and History of Dancing. 7 III. Effects of Music on animate and...

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Image 12 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... III. On Graceful Movements. 48 IV. On the Department of the Body. 53 V. On keeping exact time in Dancing. 57 VI. On the Connection between Music and Dancing, &c. 62 VII....

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Image 13 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... A TREATISE ON THE ART OF DANCING. BOOK I. HISTORY AND THEORY OF DANCING. CHAPTER I. ON THE NECESSITY OF EXERCISE, &c. The principal intention of the present publication is, besides that...

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Image 14 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 2 and guardians, however, though well inclined otherwise to give their children a genteel education, who do not consider the importance of this art, and consequently neglect its cultivation. till their children...

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Image 15 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 3 totally desist from exercise, and the consequence necessarily affects the brain. A merely studious and sedentary life is therefore equally prejudicial to the body and the mind. The limbs likewise become...

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Image 16 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 4 A liberal and learned education is, doubtless, one of the noblest and most desirable acquisitions of life, as no person without it can be truly accounted genteel, and a person with...

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Image 17 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 5 ends of education, I mean of the inferior parts of education: and though the warn of this be in the mouth of every one, the exertion to acquire it, is, it...

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Image 18 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 6 should have said, that cannot enter it or take off his hat without a degree of aukwardness. To persons in the higher and middle classes of life, I would strongly recommend...

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Image 19 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 7 to say a few words on the dances of the ancients, and of their several kinds, in order to facilitate the understanding of what is to follow. Many sovereigns have founded...

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Image 20 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 8 CHAPTER II. DEFINITION AND HISTORY OF DANCING. DANCING, as at present practised, may be defined “an agreeable motion of the body, adjusted by art to the measures or tune of instruments,...

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Image 21 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 9 Almost from the first accounts we have of mankind, in history, we are told of their dancing; we must not imagine, however, that the dances of the first inhabitants of both...

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Image 22 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 10 CHAPTER III. EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON ANIMATE AND INANIMATE BODIES. THE connection existing between certain sounds and these motions of the human body, called Dancing, hath seldom or ever been enquired...

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Image 23 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 11 of the sounding body; if these concussions are so strong as to make the large quantity of elastic fluid vibrate, that is dispersed through a stone wall, or a considerable portion...

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Image 24 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 12 nervous fluid above mentioned. Hence musical sounds have the greatest power over those people who are of a delicate, sensible frame, and who have strong passions. If it be true, therefore,...

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Image 25 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 13 of exciting these particular vibrations, will be immediately formed into music for Dances of another kind. As barbarous people are observed to have the strongest passions, so they are the most...

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Image 26 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 14 CHAPTER IV. UNIVERSALITY OF DANCING AMONG ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. THE spirit of Dancing prevails almost beyond imagination among both men and women in most parts of Africa; it is even...

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Image 27 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 15 The same thing is found to take place in America; though, as the inhabitants of that continent are found to be of a more fierce and barbarous nature than the African...

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Image 28 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 16 air, catching them again, bending backwards and springing forwards with great agility. The Greeks had martial Dances which they accounted very useful for keeping up the warlike spirit of their youth,...

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Image 29 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 17 passions of pride, resentment, obstinacy, &c. were excited in them not by the mechanical means of music and dancing, but by being taught that it was their chief honour to fight...

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Image 30 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 18 used to dance round in the choir of the church which is Under the invocation of their patron-saint, and at the end of the psalm; instead of the Glori Patria, they...

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Image 31 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 19 CHAPTER V. OF THE VARIOUS MODES OF DANCING AMONG THE ANCIENTS. PLATO reduces the Dances of the Ancients to three classes: first, the military dances, Which tended to make the body...

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Image 32 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 20 This childrens dance used to be executed in the public place. It was composed of choirs, the one of grown men; the other of children: whence being chiefly designed for the...

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Image 33 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 21 dodging, parrying or avoiding a blow or thrust. The third part called the Komes, consisted in very high leaps or vaultings which the dancers frequently repeated for the better using themselves...

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Image 34 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 22 one of children, another of young men, and the third of old. The old men opened the dance, saying “in time past we were valiant;” the young men answered “we are...

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Image 35 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 23 accompanied with songs and dances: it was not held possible to celebrate any mystery or to be initiated without the intervention of these two arts. In short they were looked upon...

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Image 36 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 24 antistrophe from the left to the right: so that the stationary did not mean an absolute pause or rest, but only a more grave or slow movement. Plutarch is persuaded that...

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Image 37 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 25 CHAPTER VI. CURIOUS ANECDOTES RESPECTING THE ART OF DANCING. FORMERLY they danced in France and elsewhere, the Pavan, a grave Dance that came from Spain, wherein the Dancers made a ring...

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Image 38 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 26 childish, and treated with contempt. In the time of Lewis the XIV. they danced at court and at Paris, amiable Vainqueurs Passepies, Sarabands, Courants, &c. but all these grand matters have...

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Image 39 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 27 Marguerite de Valois, first wife of Henry the IV. of France, was beautiful in her person, very fascinating in her manners, and danced with such peculiar grace, that the celebrated Don...

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Image 40 of A treatise on the theory and practice of dancing with an appropriate poem, ... 28 grand-mother, father, mother, sister, uncle, aunt, son, daughter, husband, or wife, by the guillotine. However the rage for this species of dancing assemblies, soon subsided. The following story from Voltaire, may...

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