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Encyclopedia > The Dancing Master

The Dancing Master was a dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances. It was published in several editions by John Playford and his successors from 1650 or 1651 until c1728. English Country Dance, sometimes abbreviated ECD, is a form of folk dance. ... John Playford was born in Norwich in 1623 and died in London in 1686. ...


The first edition was called The English Dancing Master or, Plaine and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance. Subsequent editions dropped the "English" from the title.


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Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1069 words)
Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.
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