Dances of to-day, by Albert W. Newman ... an expert's full directions, with illustrations and diagrams, for learning or teaching the tango, hesitation, one-step, Boston, maxixe and all other modern dances.

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Dances of to-day, by Albert W. Newman ... an expert's full directions, with illustrations and diagrams, for learning or teaching the tango, hesitation, one-step, Boston, maxixe and all other modern dances.

Newman, Albert W.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co., 1914.

SUMMARY
Declaring his book to be the "absolute authorith on modern dancing," Newman describes a large selection of the most popular ragtime dances including the Castle Walk, Castle Glide, one step, horse trot, tango, maxixe, and lame duck. The manual is enhanced with line drawings and photographs and contains music for the "Newman Tango."

SUBJECTS
Dance.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.

MEDIUM
176 p. incl. front. (port.) illus., plates. diagrs., music. 15 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1755 .N5

DIGITAL ID
musdi 122 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.122

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 104-106) - Standard Waltz
(Video clip for p. 143) - Maxixe (1st step)

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