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Payne's Six New Favorite Waltzes — Arranged as the First Set of Quadrilles (Edward Payne, London, c.1816)
Publisher: Edward Payne (b.?, d. c.1818-1819), Regency-era London dance master; published (per watermark 1815 and addresses of sellers Falker and Christmas) c. June 1816, London. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/Payne_Six_Waltzes.txt — 16 lines OCR; cover + figure-label page only; full step prose and engraved quadrille figures present in the PDF but not in the OCR). Cover signed E. Payne. "Payne's Six New Favorite Waltzes is not listed in any other library or collection" (Paul Cooper research note). HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Edward Payne — often confused with James Paine of Almack's — was one of the earliest and most influential dance masters of the Regency era. He was the first to publish Quadrilles, pre-dating James Paine's First Set by a year. Payne was teaching Waltzes in 1815, and his First Set of Quadrilles was probably 1815 (possibly 1814). This Six Waltzes set is arranged as the FIRST WALTZ QUADRILLE in the corpus — predating the Waltz Quadrille canon as codified in Lowe 1838, Mitchell c.1842, Coulon 1844, Saunders 1845, etc. by 20+ years. Payne seems to have been a significant influence on both Thomas Wilson and G.M.S. Chivers. Payne died at the end of 1818 or the beginning of 1819, before he could see the full success of his dances. Contents: Six waltzes arranged as the standard 5-figure Quadrille structure (Le Pantalon Waltz / L'Eté Waltz / La Poule Waltz / Le Trénise Waltz / La Finale Waltz) plus an additional waltz figure. First-corpus DISTINCT-FROM-JAMES-PAINE attribution for Edward Payne as a 1815-1816 Regency-era originator of the Waltz Quadrille form. Has_Step_Detail=No (cover + figure-labels only in OCR; full step prose not extractable at this pass; deferred for manual re-OCR from PDF).Year: 1816Family: payne-sixwaltzesCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Edward Payne (b.?, d. c.1818-1819), Regency-era London dance master; published (per watermark 1815 and addresses of sellers Falker and Christmas) c. June 1816, London. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/Payne_Six_Waltzes.txt — 16 lines OCR; cover + figure-label page only; full step prose and engraved quadrille figures present in the PDF but not in the OCR). Cover signed E. Payne. "Payne's Six New Favorite Waltzes is not listed in any other library or collection" (Paul Cooper research note). HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Edward Payne — often confused with James Paine of Almack's — was one of the earliest and most influential dance masters of the Regency era. He was the first to publish Quadrilles, pre-dating James Paine's First Set by a year. Payne was teaching Waltzes in 1815, and his First Set of Quadrilles was probably 1815 (possibly 1814). This Six Waltzes set is arranged as the FIRST WALTZ QUADRILLE in the corpus — predating the Waltz Quadrille canon as codified in Lowe 1838, Mitchell c.1842, Coulon 1844, Saunders 1845, etc. by 20+ years. Payne seems to have been a significant influence on both Thomas Wilson and G.M.S. Chivers. Payne died at the end of 1818 or the beginning of 1819, before he could see the full success of his dances. Contents: Six waltzes arranged as the standard 5-figure Quadrille structure (Le Pantalon Waltz / L'Eté Waltz / La Poule Waltz / Le Trénise Waltz / La Finale Waltz) plus an additional waltz figure. First-corpus DISTINCT-FROM-JAMES-PAINE attribution for Edward Payne as a 1815-1816 Regency-era originator of the Waltz Quadrille form. Has_Step_Detail=No (cover + figure-labels only in OCR; full step prose not extractable at this pass; deferred for manual re-OCR from PDF). (1816). Imported from local collection.