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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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The royal ball-room guide and etiquette of the drawing-room, containing the newest and most elegant dances and a short history of dancing. By Rudolph Radestock ...
OTHER TITLES
Royal ball-room guide
CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, W. Walker and Sons [pref. 1877]
SUMMARY
Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book provides a short history of dance, positions of the feet, a glossary of French terms, and suggestions for giving balls including an admonishment to have enough waiters at the supper table. Indicating the decade's growing interest in elaborate balls, Radestock suggests one waiter for each two persons. The section on etiquette has been reduced to thirty-three short rules, and the manual describes most of the popular ballroom dances--quadrille, waltz, schottisch--and a variety of country dances.
SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
MEDIUM
x, [11]-95 p. front. 13 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1593 .R3
DIGITAL ID
musdi 140 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.140
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(Video clip for p. 64) - Waltz Cotillion (also known as Waltz Quadrille)
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