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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances including all the latest and most fashionable ... with elegant illustrations, and full explanation and every variety of the latest and most approved figures, and calls for the different changes, and rules on deportment and the toilet, and the etiquette of dancing. By Elias Howe, assisted by several eminent professors of dancing.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Boston, E. Howe, 1862.
SUMMARY
This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many nineteenth-century dance manuals, it is a compilation of other sources and assembled by a publisher. The book begins with a brief description of etiquette of the ballroom and continues with information on the supper room and how to arrange balls. The work also discusses many popular group dances including the quadrille, country dance, and German or parlor cotillon as well as round dances--polka, schottisch, esmeralda, polka redowa, and zingerilla.
SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
MEDIUM
160 p. illus. 17 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .H84 1862
DIGITAL ID
musdi 102 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.102
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 63) - Waltz Cotillion (also known as Waltz Quadrille)
(Video clip for p. 107) - Varsovienne
(Video clip for p. 108) - Polka
(Video clip for p. 109) - Schottisch
(Video clip for p. 110) - La Esmeralda
(Video clip for p. 111) - Polka mazurka
(Video clip for p. 113) - Gintana Waltz (Gitana Waltz)
(Video clip for p. 113) - Zingerella
(Video clip for p. 114) - Five Step Waltz
(Video clip for p. 118) - Waltz of Three Steps
(Video clip for p. 149) - The Fan, from the German
(Video clip for p. 149) - Blind Man's Buff, from the German
(Video clip for p. 149) - Blind Man's Buff, from the German
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