 | Orchesography by Thoinot Arbeau
Buy used from: $8.48 Beginner's manual for 16th-century dance; accessible translation and price.
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 | Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame (1600) by Fabritio Caroso
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $4.69 Scholarly translation of a late 16th-century manual with detailed original instructions.
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![Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417Q6JNMQ9L._SL75_.jpg) | Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance [VHS]
Buy new: $42.74 / Used from: $999.99 Video showing authentic late 16th-century steps and style.
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 | The Fashionable Dancer's Casket, The: Or the Ball-Room Instructor by Charles Durang
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.02 Very affordable reprint of an 1856 dance manual.
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 | Homespun America: Mid-19th Century Brass Band, Social Orchestra & Choral Group Music by Gioachino Rossini
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.29 Double CD set with many danceable Victorian pieces. A real bargain.
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 | The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $67.51 Norah Waugh's books are great sources of authentic clothing patterns.
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 | Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940 by Janet Arnold
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $25.00 Janet Arnold's books are costuming classics for many eras.
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 | Come & Trip It: Instrumental Dance Music 1780s-1920s by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.20 CD with Victorian, ragtime, and 1920s danceable pieces.
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 | After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles by Frances Grimble
Buy new: $28.88 / Used from: $24.00 Most of the information you'll ever need on costuming and vintage clothes.
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 | Modern Dancing (Series in Dance) by Vernon Castle
A 1914 manual by the most famous ballroom dancers of their day.
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 | Titanic: Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage by Ian Whitcomb
Buy used from: $2.65 Excellent, danceable recordings of early 1910s dances.
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 | Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance (Contributions to the Study of Music & Dance) by Julie Malnig
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $7.99 Great account of ballroom performers in the 1910s and 1920s.
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 | Charleston of the Twenties by Various Artists
CD consisting entirely of original Charleston recordings.
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 | Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall Stearns
Buy new: $16.38 / Used from: $7.01 Detailed analysis of Afro-American influences on dance. Lots of hard-to-find information.
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 | Film Choreographers and Dance Directors: An Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia, With a History and Filmographies, 1893 Through 1995 by Larry Billman
Buy used from: $174.87 Where to find out which dances are shown in which old films.
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