English Country Dance History, Music, and Steps

• As Many as Will English Country Dances
          Published in the Proceedings of the Known World Dance Symposium 2007.

• Dance Video Archive
          Videos of dances from member organizations of the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS), including traditional and modern English country dance.

• English country dance diagrams for beginners
          Animations to aid visualization of several dances.


• Interestingly Weird Three Couple English Country Dances
          Published in the Proceedings of the Known World Dance Symposium 2007.


• Palmer's Pocket Playford
          "An aide memoire summary by William Palmer of dances from the Playford Ball programmes as arranged by The Round in Cambridge, England."


• The Country Dance Book
          A large collection of dance steps, some with music, transcribed from the various parts and editions of Cecil Sharp's The Country Dance Book.


• The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium
          A comprehensive scholarly database allowing comparisons across all versions of Playford's work.


• The Dancing Master, 2nd edition, John Playford (1653)
          Transcription of complete work with facsimile reproductions of melodies and figure notations.


• The Dancing Master, 10th edition, John Playford (1698)
          Scanned version of the complete work at the Internet Archive.


• The Dancing Master, vol. the 2nd, 4th edition John Playford (1728)
          Scanned version of the complete work at the Internet Archive.


• The English Dancing Master (1651)
          Transcription of the 1651 edition of John Playford's The English Dancing Master.

English Popular Ballads

• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (Oxford University, UK)
          The Bodleian Library's extensive digitized collection of original versions of 16 ^th- to the 20^th-Century Broadside Ballads.
          Early ballads and dances of the day often shared the same tune.
  

English Country Dance Organizations

Virginia, Maryland, and District of Columbia

National and International