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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, par Blasis ...
OTHER TITLES
Encyclopédie-Roret, Danse
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Nouv. éd., entièrement refondue d'après la traduction de P. Vergnaud, revue par Gardel, et augm. des danses de société ... par M. Lemaître ...
Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1866.
SUMMARY
Although attributed to Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Carlo Blasis, this manual contains an abridgement of Blasis's writing on the subject of social dance as published in The Code of Terpsichore (1830). The manual's discussion of specific dances is augmented by M. Lemaitre and includes quadrilles, the waltz, polka, schottisch, polka-mazurka, redowa and cotillon.
SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Ballet.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
RELATED NAMES
Vergnaud, Paul, tr.
Gardel, Pierre, 1758-1840.
Lemaître, dancing master, ed.
RELATED TITLES
Manuels-Roret
MEDIUM
2 p.l., iv, 111, [1] p. 16 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .B6 1866
DIGITAL ID
musdi 020 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.020
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 34-36) - Valse a trois temps
(Video clip for p. 37) - Polka
(Video clip for p. 39) - Schottisch
(Video clip for p. 40) - Polka mazurka
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