Contains examples of basse danses, Hoftanzen, pavans, galliards, passamezzi, saltarelli, branles, allemandes, courantes, and sarabandes, as well as other French dances, Italian and Spanish dances, Eastern European dances, dances from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, folk dances in nineteenth and twentieth-century art music.
Includes works by M. Gulielmus (Hebraeus Pisauriensis?), Franciscus de la Torre, Hans Kotter, Claudin de Sermisy, Claude Gervaise, P. B[londeau], M Praetorius, T. Simpson, J.-B. Lully, P.F. Caroubel, G.W. Druckhenmüller, J.P. Kirnberger, H. Desmarets, J.-P. Rameau, P. Peuerl, H. Utrecht, J. Kuhnau, M. Pesenti, G. Fantini, J.H. Schmelzer, N. Vallet, Du Faut, R. Farnaby, W. Byrd, E. Widmann, L. Pécourt, E.C.J. de la Guerre, J.S. Bach, J.S. Kusser, G. Sanz, V. Haussmann, F. Chopin, J.N. Hummel, F. Schubert, L. van Beethoven, J. Lanner, J. Strauss, Jr., J. Offenbach, I. Albeniz, M. de Falla, M. Ravel, M. Mussorgsky, Bartók, M. Tajčević, P. Martin, E. Madriguera, M. Seiber.