Folk Songs of Virginia; A Descriptive Index and Classification of Material Collected under the Auspices of the Virginia Folklore Society

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addition to the work. To cite but a few from the more than fifty pieces, there are the following: Accidents while Dancing, American Indian Dancing, Ballet in America, Notes on Choreography, Dance Criticism, Ethnologic Dance, Ballet in Motion Pictures, Dance in Physical Education, History of Social Dancing, Sociology of the Dance, Perspectives of Soviet Ballet, Television Dance, and Philosophy of the Dance. Most noteworthy of these articles are Edwin Denby's penetrating essay on Dance Criticism and George Balanchine's brilliant analysis of Choreography. lity they form a useful and interesting As with other works of this kind there are a number of omissions which by now have undoubtedly come to the compiler's attention. The whole field of European folk and regional dancing has hardly been touched on, and there is a vast body of information on the dances of the Orient which has not been assembled for this volume. But perhaps it would be outside the scope of a single book to include this material. Certainly this is without doubt an excellent work and it should in time become as familiar and as frequently consulted as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. PAUL MAGRIEL s with other works of this kind there