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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Roberts' manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room; containing a review and full description of all the modern dances, &c.

OTHER TITLES
Manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room

Fashionable dancing

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Melbourne, G. Robertson, 1875.

SUMMARY
Like many European and North American manuals of the nineteenth century, this Australian version is acknowledged by the publisher to be a compilation of other writers' work. To enhance the book's marketability, the author states that many "who have left the colonies for London, Paris, and other continental cities" have admirably acquitted and distinguished themselves. The book describes quadrilles and waltzes as well as dances popular in the 1840s such as the "Cellarius Waltz."

SUBJECTS
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
3 p.l., [v]-viii, 136 p. incl. pl. 14 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .R65

DIGITAL ID
musdi 147 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.147

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