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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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The Ball-room guide. With coloured plates.

OTHER TITLES
Added t.-p. (illustrated in colors): Ball-room companion

CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, F. Warne and Co., 1866.

SUMMARY
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The ball-room guide is not original but borrowed from other sources. The manual opens with discussion on the arrangements for balls, appropriate dress for ladies and gentlemen, and thirteen pages of etiquette. Various dances are described including quadrilles, the waltz, varsoviana, polka and three group dances, "The Spanish Dance," "Tempête," and "Sir Roger de Coverly." The manual concludes with a glossary of terminology used in ballroom dance.

SUBJECTS
Balls (Parties)
Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.

MEDIUM
2 p.l., [iii]-iv, [5]-96 p. col. front. 9 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1746 .B27

DIGITAL ID
musdi 216 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.216

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 60) - Valse a trois temps (waltz)
(Video clip for p. 66) - Varsoviana
(Video clip for p. 67) - Polka
(Video clip for p. 71) - Schottisch

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