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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo ...

De Garmo, Wm. B. (William B.)

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, Raymond & Caulon, Printers, 1865.

SUMMARY
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from previously published materials. The treatise opens with a brief discussion of etiquette and continues with figures for quadrilles. Additionally, the manual discusses "Le quadrille Français," De Garmo's terminology for English country dances, and gives eighty-seven figures for the cotillon, a popular group dance that takes the form of a series of party games.

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

MEDIUM
78 p. 14 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .D325

DIGITAL ID
musdi 055 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.055

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(Video clip for p. 46) - The Rope, from the German

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