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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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The art of dancing explained by reading and figures; whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books.
OTHER TITLES
Art of dancing explain'd
CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, Printed for the author, 1735.
SUMMARY
The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.
NOTES
The frontispiece is dated 1754.
Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate.
SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Minuet (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
MEDIUM
12 p.l., [3]-159, [1] p. front. (port.) 37 pl. 30 x 23 cm.
CALL NUMBER
MT950.A2 T6
DIGITAL ID
musdi 158 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.158
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