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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical; lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing (choregraphy) with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe ...
OTHER TITLES
Grammatik der Tanzkunst. English
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Boston, Mass. [The Heintzemann Press] 1905.
SUMMARY
The first edition of Zorn's book was published in Leipzig in 1887 under the title Grammatik der Tanzkunst; later it was translated into English and Russian. Through text and Zorn's innovative dance notation system, the manual covers positions of the feet, preparatory exercises, arm movements, and step terminology of mid-nineteenth-century ballet. Several quadrille figures are notated as well as the minuet, gavotte, and numerous waltz, polka, and galop steps. A volume of music that includes over one hundred melodies to accompany the steps, exercise, and dances accompanies this edition.
NOTES
Translated by Benjamin P. Coates.
Supplemented by: "Musical score of the Grammar of the art of dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe ..." (1 p.l., 37 p. 21x28 cm.) published: Boston, Mass., 1905. Call number: GV1751.Z9 score.
SUBJECTS
Ballet--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance notation.
Dance music.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Theatrical Dance.
Music for Dance.
RELATED NAMES
Sheafe, Alfonso Josephs, ed.
Coates, Benjamin P., tr.
MEDIUM
xviii p., 1 l., 3-302 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. music) 28 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1751 .Z9
DIGITAL ID
musdi 174 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.174
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