Posted on 15 April 2006; updated 13 February 2010.

Citation: Boehme, Franz Magnas. Geschichte des Tanzes in Deutschland. Beitrag zur Deutschen Sitten-, Litteratur- und Musikgeschichte. Nach den Quellen zum erstenmal bearbeitet und mit alten Tanzliedern und Musikproben. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1886. 2 vols. [A facsimile edition has been published by Georg Olms Verlag.] Here is a link to Boehme's Geschichte on Google Books: link. A PDF file can be downloaded, or one can browse a scanned -- and, as one might expect, sometimes faulty -- plain text version in Google's reader.

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Title pages of volumes 1 & 2: title page.
Table of contents: table of contents.
Vorwort (pp. V-VII): Foreword.
Chapter 11, pp. 145-150 [introduction to dance in 18th and 19th centuries]: Chapter 11 excerpts.
Chapter 14, pp. 215-220 [section on the waltz]: chapter 14 excerpts.
Chapter 16, pp. 264-278, section "Tanzmusik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts" [focuses on composers and social functions of dance]: chapter 16 excerpts.

All original material copyright David Neumeyer 2006.

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