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Title: A Treatise on the Art of Dancing

Author: Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

Release Date: February 19, 2008 [EBook #24643]

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

ADVERTISEMENT.

What I have here to say is rather in the nature of an apology
than of a preface or advertisement. The very title of a Treatise
upon the art of dancing by a dancing-master, implicitly
threatens so much either of the exageration of the profession,
or of the recomm