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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette.

Clendenen, F. Leslie b. 1864. (Frank Leslie),

OTHER TITLES
Fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette

Fashionable quadrille call book and guide to etiquette

Professor Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Davenport, Ia., F.L. Clendenen [c1895]

SUMMARY
Quoting extensively from L.H. Elmwell's 1892 dance manual, this treatise is aimed at prompters of quadrilles. The manual includes a brief explanation of quadrille figures and etiquette (with emphasis on etiquette while performing quadrilles). Quadrille figures are included with appropriate calls for the prompter.

NOTES
Cover title.

LC copy imperfect: cover wanting.

SUBJECTS
Quadrille (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Prompting Quadrilles.

MEDIUM
1 p.l., 62 p. 15 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1767 .C62 1895

DIGITAL ID
musdi 016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.016

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