DANCES OF OUR PIONEERS

Collected by GRACE L. RYAN

Department of Physical Education, Central State Teachers College,
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Music Arrangements by Robert T. Benford.
Illustration by Brooks Emerson.

Country dances are coming back into popularity and
they are particularly suitable for use in school activity
programs and school entertainments. Miss Ryan has
completely revised her former book and now you have
in one volume full description of the old time dances, with
calls, directions, music and illustrative line drawings.

Pioneer dances may be used with mixed groups of all
ages. In elementary schools they make interesting activ-
ity as part of pioneer life studies; in junior high schools
they are valuable in a coeducational social program and
with adults they form the basis of a real party.

THE CONTENTS: Introduction, Definition 0f& ea
Terms, Music, Quadrilles, Contra Dances, Mis- Devces of Our Pioneer: vo
cellaneous Dances. The dances described in- —
clude, The Devil's Dream, Fireman's Dance,
Fisher's Hornpipe, The Money Musk, Opera
Reel, The Tempest, Virginia Reel, Scotch Reel,
Guilderoy Reel, New Century Hornpipe, Sicil-
ian Circle, Wild Irishman, Paul Jones, The
Racquet, The Rye Waltz, Coming Through the ft
Rye, Oxford Waltz, Varovienne. A wide selec- Grace he

tion of Schottische’s and Polka’s are also in- ;
cluded. TT

8vo... Cloth... Illustrated... Music... $2.00

 

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