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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The dance, ancient and modern / translated from the French by Arabella E. Moore.

OTHER TITLES
Danse à travers les âges. English.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Philadelphia, Pa. : A. Moore, 1900.

SUMMARY
Translated from French by Arabella E. Moore, this is an example of the growing body of historiographical texts that began to appear in the late 1890s into the turn of the twentieth century. The work borrows heavily from previously published materials for sections on primitive and ancient dances. As with other authors of this era, "modern dances" are considered to be the pavane, gavot, rigodon, and minuet. In keeping with a renewed interest in the reconstruction of Renaissance and Baroque dances, the manual includes a chapter, "Revival of Popular Old Dances." A chapter on "contemporary dances" includes polka quadrilles, Boston, mazurka, and cotillon (also known as the German).

SUBJECTS
Dance--History.
Dance History and Theory.
Theatrical Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Moore, Arabella E. (Arabella Elizabeth)

MEDIUM
32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1603 .D2

DIGITAL ID
musdi 058 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.058

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