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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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Letters on dancing, reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles ... By E. A. Théleur ... Illustrated by twenty-four copper-plate engravings, by Stewart, Halpin, Hicks and Read ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED
2d ed.
London, Printed for the Author by Sherwood & Co., 1832.
SUMMARY
This manual is considered one of the most important discussions regarding the style and steps of early Romantic ballet. A dancer and dancing master, Théleur (née Taylor; fl. c. 1817-c. 1844), wrote his manual in the form of a series of thirteen letters that includes a brief history of dance as well as a section devoted to social dance. The book is enhanced by full-page prints, including illustrations of dancers on full pointe. Théleur's dance notation system, the first in the nineteenth century, also helps illuminate theatrical dance practices of the time.
NOTES
4 leaves of music not included in paging.
SUBJECTS
Ballet--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Notation for Dance.
Music for Dance.
MEDIUM
4 p.l., viii, 104 p. plates, plans. 27 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1787 .T37
DIGITAL ID
musdi 156 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.156
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