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Title: A Treatise on the Art of Dancing

Author: Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

Release date: February 19, 2008 [eBook #24643]
Most recently updated: January 3, 2021

Language: English

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A

TREATISE

ON THE

ART

OF

DANCING.

By Giovanni-Andrea Gallini.

LONDON :

Printed for the AUTHOR ;

And Sold by R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; T. Becket
and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand; J. Dixwell,
in St. Martin’s-Lane, near Charing-Cross;

AND

At Mr. Bremner’s Music Shop, opposite
Somerset-House, in the Strand.

MDCCLXXII.

THE

TABLE

OF

CONTENTS.

Of the Antient Dance	p. 17
Of Dancing in General	49
Of sundry Requisites for the Perfection of the Art of Dancing	89
Some Thoughts on the Utility of Learning to Dance, and especially upon the Minuet	139
Summary Account of various Kinds of Dances in different Parts of the World	181
Of Pantomimes	227