• Wagner, Ann Louise. Wagner, Ann.
  1. "The Significance of Dance in Sixteenth Century Courtesy Literature." dissertation (University of Minnesota), UMI, 1983. v, 229 p. : ill
  2. "Dance As Virtue: An Analysis From the Sixteenth Century Courtesy Literature." In Proceedings of the Sixth annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, 37-47. Milwaukee, WI: Dance History Scholars, 1983.
  3. "Dance As Vice: A Continuing Analysis From the Sixteenth Century English Courtesy Literature." In Proceedings of the Seventh annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, ed. Christena L. Schlundt, 110-118. Towson, MD: Dance History Scholars, 1984.
• Waks, Mark (SCA pseud. Justin du Coeur).
  1. "The Tourdion: An Introduction." The Letter of Dance, no. 1 (1989).
     Justin du Coeur: An introduction to the Tourdion and Galliard for The Compleat Beginner. Has a bit of discussion of Galliards in SCA practice, but should serve as a general basic introduction. Describes only the basic cinq pas (five-step) galliard.
     Online version
  2. "The Galliard, Part 2: Some Variations." The Letter of Dance, no. 2 (1989).
     Justin du Coeur: Presents some slightly more complex variants of the Galliard, for the dancer who has the cinq pas down pat. Four variations are presented, mostly from Arbeau's Orchesography. (Some inaccuracies are present in the discussion of the grappo.)
     Online version
  3. "The Galliard, Part III: Some Advanced Galliards." The Letter of Dance, no. 3 (1989).
     Justin du Coeur: The conclusion of the discussion of elementary Galliards, this section gets into some reasonably complex variations from Arbeau, such as the basic eleven step. Note that this article does not discuss the truly complex variations found in contemporary Italian sources, but restricts itself to variants that the average dancer could pick up with reasonable ease.
     Online version
  4. "Notes From a Dance Practice." The Letter of Dance, no. 5 (1990).
     Justin du Coeur: A discussion of how to run a Dance Practice. While focused upon issues relevant to the SCA dancemaster, much of what is discussed is relevant to folk dance as well.
     Online version
  5. "Rudiments of Ballo Dimenio of the Late 20th Century." The Letter of Dance, no. 5 (1990).
     Justin du Coeur: A bit of humor: a reconstruction that an archaeologist of the future might come up with, if he stumbled upon a cache of "Club MTV" videotapes.
     Online version
  6. "Ballo Del Fiore in Due; "Dance of the Flower, For Two"." The Letter of Dance, no. 6 (1990).
     Justin du Coeur: An in-depth reconstruction of a dance from Il Ballarino(1581). Includes translation of the original, and a simple arrangement of the music. Based on a reconstruction by Dr. Ingrid Brainard.
     Online version
  7. "Music/Book Review: "English Country Dances" By the Boxwood Consort." The Letter of Dance, no. 12 (1992): 4-5.
     Justin du Coeur: A review of a cassette and accompanying reconstruction booklet, of various English Country dances ranging from Playford to today.
• Walls, Peter. "Common Sixteenth Century Dance Forms." Early Music 2 (1974): 164.
• Ward, John M.
  1. "The Manner of Dauncynge." Early Music 4 (1976): 127.
  2. "The English Measure." Early Music 14 (1986): 15.
     Ian Engle: What is this "measure" anyhow?
  3. "Newly Devis'd Measures For Jacobean Masques." Acta Musicologica 60 (1988): 111.
     Ian Engle: Has some pages facsim'ed from the Stockholm ballet ms (early 1600's). Very useful for masque work.
• Webb, Barbara (SCA pseud. Caitlin de Courcy).
  1. "Dance Games." The Letter of Dance, no. 13 (1992): 10-12.
     Justin du Coeur: Some ideas for how to lighten up the dance floor a little; includes several SCA inventions and variations.
  2. "More on Hyde Park." The Letter of Dance, no. 13 (1992): 14-16.
     Justin du Coeur: Comments on Dani Zweig's reconstruction in issue 4, and presents an alternate reconstruction of this Playford dance.
• Westlake, Nat Hubert John. The Dance; Historic
  Illustrations of Dancing From 3300 B.C. To 1911 A.D. By an Antiquary. London: J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, ltd., 1911. viii, 68 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 25 cm
• White, Eileen and Kathy Mitchell. The Maner of Dauncynge. Leeds: Arbeau Dancers, 1981.
  36 p. : ill., facsims., music ; 21 cm
• Wilson, D. R.
  1. The Steps Used in Court Dancing in Fifteenth-Century Italy . D. R. Wilson ,.
     Del (D.Elson): This is an exceedingly useful book for people studying 15th C dance. It lists, in sections ordered alphabetically, all of the steps contained in the 15th C Italian dances. For each step it gives a detailed reconstruction; including evidence extracted from the manuscripts, examples of use, and comparisons as to how the steps were referred to by the different authors (Domenico, Cornazano, and Guglielmo).
  2. "Theory and Practice in 15th Century French Basse Dance." Historical Dance 2, no. 3 (1983): 1-2.
     Andrew Draskoy: Examines the structure of the dances in MS 9085 Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. The dances are compared to the theory that supposedly governs their structure according to the introductory treatise. Various statistics are given, and the discrepancies of the treatise revealed.
  3. "The Development of French Basse Dance." Historical Dance 2, no. 4 (1984-1985): 4.
     Andrew Draskoy: Wilson analyzes the structure of 318 basse dancs in nine 15th and 16th century sources. He shows the relationships between them, speculating on innovation and regional variation. The patterns underlying the dances are revealed, and used to demonstrate the gradual evolution of the dance form.
  4. "A Coranto With a Diagram: A Note on the Text." Historical Dance 2, no. 4 (1984-1985): 4.
     Andrew Draskoy: A followup to P. Frank's article, with a better transcription of "the first corant" and more notes on the terminology, one of which (on the "chace") may have relevance to other dance forms.
  5. "Dancing in the Inns of Court." Historical Dance 2, no. 5 (1987): 3-16.
     Andrew Draskoy: Transcriptions of the Inns of Court manuscripts. More accurate than Cunningham, but doesn't include the coranto with a diagram, the country dances, or as much background information. Also see entry of original for more comments.
  6. Domenico of Piacenza (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Ital. 972). Cambridge: The Early Dance Circle, 1988.
  7. "`Só ben mi chi ha buon tempo' by Cesare Negri." Historical Dance, Vol. 3 No. 5, 1998. pp. 13-16.
  8. "`Il bianco fiore' by Cesare Negri.." Historical Dance Vol. 2 No. 5 1986/7. Pp. 33-35.
• Wood, Melusine.
  1. "Some Notes on the English Country Dance Before Playford." Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society 3, no. 2 (December 1937).
  2. Some Historical Dances, Twelfth to Nineteenth Century; Their Manner of Performance and Their Place in the Social Life of the Time. London: Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, 1952.
     184 p. plates. 26 cm
  3. More Historical Dances, Comprising the Technical Part of the Elementary Syllabus and the Intermediate Syllabus, the Latter Section Including Such Dances As Appertain But Not Previously Described. London: Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, 1956.
     159 p. illus. 26 cm 3
  4. Advanced Historical Dances. London: Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Publisher to the Society: C. W. Beaumont, 1960.
     189 p. plate, diagrs. 26 cm
  5. Historical Dances (Twelfth to Nineteenth Century) : Their Manner of Performance and Their Place in the Social Life of the Time. London: Dance Books, 1982.
     184 p., 8 p. of plates : music ; 22 cm
• Woodruff, Dianne L. "The Balet Comique in the Petit Bourbon: A Practical View." In Proceedings of the ninth annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, 91-129. Riverside: Dance History Scholars, 1986.
  Lizbeth Langston: Examines the performance space and other similar rooms.

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