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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.

OTHER TITLES
Quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [c1878]

SUMMARY
This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Although advertised as a ballroom prompter, only one page is devoted to calling figures in a quadrille. The book contains rudimentary etiquette advice and dance instructions for numerous dances including the grand march, quadrilles, and contradances such as "Virginia Reel," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Spanish Dance," and "Sicilian Circle." Also described are various round dances such as the polka, polka redowa, modern plain waltz, Boston Dip, varsovienne, and galop. The manual concludes with 104 figures for the popular parlor game, the German (also known as the cotillon).

NOTES
Music: p. 161-230.

SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance music.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Music for Dance.

MEDIUM
230 p. 18 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .D54 1878

DIGITAL ID
musdi 013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.013

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 25) - Grand March
(Video clip for p. 137) - Blind Man's Buff, from the German
(Video clip for p. 137) - Blind Man's Buff, from the German

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