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Characteristische Englische Taenze, mit zugehoerigen Touren und einer Unterweisung in den nothwendigsten Regeln des englischen Tanzes (D. Friedrich Wilhelm Weis; Abhandlung von Johann Christian Bleszmann. Luebeck: Christian Jrmscher und Compagnie, 1777)

Publisher: D. Friedrich Wilhelm Weis (composer and physician, 'Goettingen, im September 1776' signature at end of preface) / Johann Christian Bleszmann…Year: 1777

German dance-master manual with 12 English country dances and the first codified rules for the Doppelpas and Tripelpas.

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