G'day again,

I got carried away with irrelevantly describing dance steps.

I also meant to say that I have heard a song, published in an Australian songbook of the late 19th century, which has a form and phrasing that suggests it is parodied on the Calico Printer's Clerk. If this is so, then the Calico Printer's Clerk (or some common ancestor of both) must be no later than 1870s.

The dances listed would suggest the period before these rhythmic couple dances (Polka, Schottische, Mazurka) were smothered by schmaltzy waltzes. On the same line, your "Waltz Sylvania" is probably "Waltz of Vienna" - a late corruption of Varsovienne (usually pronounced "Varsovienna" in colonial Australia).

This is a dance that the French named (c. 1845)for the Poles: (woman)of Varsovie - Warsaw) despite the fact that the dance (and its best and most complex versions) are probably Swedish! Are well, the Froggies are not always right.

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton