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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The prompter's hand book. Ed. by J. A. French.

French, J. A., ed.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Boston, O. Ditson Co., c1893.

SUMMARY
Similar to other prompter's books published during the last half of the nineteenth century, French gives instructions for calling the figures of quadrilles including examples of how the calls correlate to the music. The book also covers the calling of contra dances (progressive figure dances performed by a column of men facing a column of women).

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

MEDIUM
88 p. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1767 .F87

DIGITAL ID
musdi 079 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.079

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 48) - Waltz cotillion (also known as the waltz quadrille)

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