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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Coulon's hand-book; containing all the last new and fashionable dances, and also some important remarks on dancing & deportment ... By Coulon ...

Coulon, b. 1808.

OTHER TITLES
Coulon's hand book of dancing

Hand book of dancing

CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, A. Hammond & Co. [1873]

SUMMARY
This is an expanded version of a manual published under the same title in 1866. It is not known whether or not famed Paris dancing master Coulon actually participated in the assembly of this manual. Most of the manual is a compilation from earlier sources. Demonstrating a growing late nineteenth-century interest in physical education, this new version adds a series of exercises to be performed with poles, dumb-bells, and elastics. Additional exercises emphasize walking, running, and jumping. The manual describes the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrille, waltz, and polka.

NOTES
"New edition."--Pref.

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

MEDIUM
xii, 153 p. illus. (incl. music) 13 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .C85 1873

DIGITAL ID
musdi 179 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.179

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