last song at 19th Century dance was ???

Subject: last song @ 19th Century dance was ???
From: Rincon Roy
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 08:32 AM

What tune (or tunes) often served as the final tune for social dance events in the latter half of the 19th Century? (I'm thinking Home Sweet Home or Goodbye Old Paint)

Subject: RE: last song at 19th Century dance was ???
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 09:20 AM

From here:

-- The Sir Roger de Coverly (or Finishing dance) is a true English Folk dance and was one of the prettiest of them all, It was probably named in 1650 after "Grandfather DeCoverly" and was published in Playford's "The Dancing Master" in 1690. The Sir Roger De Coverly was founded on the old Contre Danses (Country Dances) and was the forerunner to the Virginia Reel. It was first introduced to the French Ballets in 1745 and is said to have been revived at her Majesty's bal costumé in 1844. Once it became popular as an old Ballroom dance (1800's), it was used to finish the evening's dances (last dance). It was very proper to finish the night with a simple dance everyone could and would do, The De Coverly fit the bill. In America it was known as the Virginia Reel.

Subject: RE: last song at 19th Century dance was ???
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 10:05 AM

Also from The Ball-Room Guide. With Coloured Plates (London, F. Warne and co., 1866, p. 85) (at American Memory):

It is customary to conclude the evening with some simple, jovial, spirit-stirring dance, in which all, young and old, slim and obese, may take a part. Any contre danse (country dance), answers this purpose; but the prime favourite is Sir Roger de Coverley, which has held its own, in spite of the lapse of time and the mutations of fashion, since the beginning of the last century, at the very least.