The gentleman & lady's companion : containing the newest cotillions and country dances, to which is added, instances of ill manners, to be carefully avoided by youth of both sexes.

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The gentleman & lady's companion : containing the newest cotillions and country dances, to which is added, instances of ill manners, to be carefully avoided by youth of both sexes.

OTHER TITLES
Gentleman and lady's companion

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Norwich : Printed by J. Trumbull, 1798.

SUMMARY
The etiquette section of this manual anticipates many nineteenth-century concerns regarding decorum and bodily control, and some of the ill manners described include "swinging the arms, and all other awkward gestures" and "leaning on the shoulder, or chair of another person." The manual provides nine figures for the cotillon, a precursor to the quadrille consisting of a series of figures known as changes that were performed alternately with the cotillon figure. The manual also gives the figures for seventy-nine English country dances, a popular group dance performed by a column of men facing a column of women.

NOTES
Signatures: [A]Â BÄ CÂ DÄ.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Country-dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
24 p. ; 13 cm. (12mo)

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .G4

DIGITAL ID
musdi 114 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.114

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