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Notated MusicPeace on earth : Christmas anthem : op. 38 Holograph. For chorus (SATB) and organ. Words by E.H. Sears. Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1897. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress) - Beach, Amy - Sears, Edmund H. (Edmund Hamilton)
- Date: 1897
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Notated MusicO Holy Child of Bethlehem : anthem for alto solo and chorus Holograph. For alto, chorus (SATB), and organ. Caption title. Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1896. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield) - A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress) - Brooks, Phillips
- Date: 1896
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Book/Printed MaterialThe laws of etiquette; or, Short rules and reflections for conduct in society In a rapidly growing consumer market for etiquette manuals during the nineteenth century, this is an example of a manual that attempts to reinforce the authority of its contents by suggesting legal foundations in its title as well as the qualifications of its author, in this case "A Gentleman." The straightforward chapters include "Good Breeding," "Dress," "Balls," and "Funerals." Reissued throughout the 1840s, much...
- Date: 1836
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Book/Printed MaterialManners and social usages, Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s. Additionally, of the book's fifty-nine chapters, two are devoted to dancing and balls.
- Contributor: Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1887
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Book/Printed MaterialManners and social usages,
- Contributor: Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson)
- Date: 1894
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Book/Printed MaterialThe lady's guide to perfect gentility, in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, ... Etiquette manuals are an important source for information on issues relating to the study of nineteenth-century social dance. Thornwell discusses the complexion, appropriate dress, introductions, behavior at parties, rules "on polite, easy, and graceful deportment," hints for conversation including "words, and sayings to be avoided," and concludes with chapters on needle-work and dress-making. Although much of Thornwell's manual was extracted from E. C. de...
- Contributor: Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialLettres à Sophie sur la danse, suivies d'entretiens sur les danses ancienne, moderne, religieuse, civile et théâtrale; Essentially a history of Greek, Roman, and early religious dance, and French court dance, the text is drawn from numerous writers, including Mme. Elise Voiart, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Claude François Ménestrier, Louis de Cahusac, Diderot, and Jean-Georges Noverre. The first part of this book comprises seven letters written by Baron during 1821 and 1822. The second part takes the form of conversations with Sophie...
- Contributor: Baron, A. (Auguste)
- Date: 1825
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Book/Printed MaterialThe code of Terpsichore : the art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times
Art of dancing This is one of several books written by Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Blasis (1803-1878). It covers the history and theory of dance, pantomime, the composition of ballets, and contains a section devoted to social dances entitled "private dancing."- Contributor: Blasis, Carlo - Barton, R.
- Date: 1830
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Book/Printed MaterialA treatise on the theory and practice of dancing, with an appropriate poem, in two cantos, and plates illustrative of the art The first section of this manual is devoted to a history of dance with emphasis on Greek and Roman practices. However, much of this section is borrowed liberally from the writings of late eighteenth-century authors, and, while it illuminates the importance of Greek and Roman influence on the arts of the era, modern dance scholars will find many interpretive and factual errors. Book two...
- Contributor: Cassidy, James P.
- Date: 1810
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Book/Printed MaterialElements and principles of the art of dancing, as used in the polite and fashionable circles: also rules of deportment and descriptions of manners of civility, appertaining to that art: from the ... A translation of Gourdoux-Daux's Principes de la danse (Paris, 1804 and 1811), this manual is important for its description of steps and step sequences appropriate in the performance of the popular ballroom dance, the quadrille (called cotilion by the author). The quadrille is a series of figures, organized into sets and performed by sets of four couples. The manual begins with discussions on deportment...
- Contributor: J. H. G. (J. H. Gourdoux-Daux)
- Date: 1817
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Book/Printed MaterialEssai sur la danse, antique et moderne All of Mme. Voiart's manual is devoted to the history of dance. Quoting heavily from many previously published materials, including a number of travelogues, this book discusses the origins of dance and devotes a chapter each to Greek and Roman dance. The second part of the book discusses transition to what the author terms "modern dance," in this case the court dances of France....
- Contributor: Voïart, Elise
- Date: 1823
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Book/Printed MaterialThe royal ball-room guide and etiquette of the drawing-room, containing the newest and most elegant dances and a short history of dancing
Royal ball-room guide Like other nineteenth-century dance manuals, this is a compilation of earlier writings. The book provides a short history of dance, positions of the feet, a glossary of French terms, and suggestions for giving balls including an admonishment to have enough waiters at the supper table. Indicating the decade's growing interest in elaborate balls, Radestock suggests one waiter for each two persons. The section on...- Contributor: Radestock, Rudolph
- Date: 1877
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Book/Printed MaterialDe la danse, considérée sous le rapport de l'éducation physique, In this important early nineteenth-century physiology of dance, the author provides extensive discussion on the importance of dance. Numerous extractions from Alerme's text can be found throughout later nineteenth-century dance literature.
- Contributor: Alerme, P.-E
- Date: 1830
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Book/Printed MaterialDe la danse This manual describes a colonial view of the history of dance in the West Indies, focusing on the dance of Creoles. Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819), discusses the effects of slavery and the African roots for such dances as the chica and notes that contredanses and minuets were also performed.
- Contributor: Moreau De Saint-Méry, M. L. E. (Médéric Louis Elie)
- Date: 1801
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Book/Printed MaterialA treatise on the use and peculiar advantages of dancing and exercises, considered as a means of refinement and physical development. With general remarks In this book, dancing master Mason attempts to make a case for the advantages of dancing and traces the development of dance from ancient times. As part of his argument, Mason often distinguishes between the dance of civilized and uncivilized peoples. His bias is clear in the following: "Man in a civilized state generally turns the feet outwards, as in an uncivilized state they...
- Contributor: Mason, Francis
- Date: 1854
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Book/Printed MaterialDancing, as a means of physical education; with remarks on deformities, and their prevention and cure
On dancing: its uses and abuses In her strong defense of dance and its application to female physical education, Mrs. Webster declares that dancing as exercise "is the very best safeguard against the evils of over mental education." While she approves of calisthenics and various mechanical apparatus--including swings and pulleys and a "prone couch"--she delivers a stinging rebuke regarding the wearing of corsets.- Contributor: Webster, Alfred
- Date: 1851
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Book/Printed MaterialThe danciad; or, Dancer's monitor. Being a descriptive sketch in verse, on the different styles and methods of dancing quadrilles, waltzes, country dances, &c. &c. ... Together with observations on the laws ...
Dancer's monitor Written in verse as a dramatic play in two parts, Thomas Wilson, dancing master to the King's Theatre, comments on the state of teaching, public balls, and the character of many dance instructors. Nearly every page contains additional remarks in the form of footnotes, ranging from an abstract of the 1752 Act of Parliament on illegal dancing to a long discourse on English country...- Contributor: Wilson, Thomas
- Date: 1824
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Book/Printed MaterialLa danse. Comment on dansait, comment on danse This manual is an extensive history of dance that incorporates many countries, cultures, and periods including Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, ancient Gaul, European Renaissance, and Baroque. The manual also covers popular culture, peasant dance, and "foreign dance." The perspective of this manual is clearly nineteenth century, with little emphasis on historical fact. The point of view is clearly western, and this is evident in...
- Contributor: Maugué, Jules - Casadesus, Francis - Charbonnel, Raoul - Bernay, Berthe
- Date: 1899
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Book/Printed MaterialGeschichte der Tanzkunst bei den cultivirten Völkern von den ersten Anfängen bis auf die gegenwärtige Zeit
Geschichte der Tanzkunst In this vast history of dance, Czerwinski discusses the origins of dance with Greek and Roman examples and continues with a description of the dances in many countries including Spain, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Holland, Poland, Japan, and Turkey. Specific dances include the galliard, galop, menuet, quadrille, waltz, and tarantella. Although the scholarship is flawed by contemporary standards, the work is part of...- Contributor: Czerwinski, Albert
- Date: 1862
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Book/Printed MaterialHistoire anecdotique et pittoresque de la danse chez les peuples anciens et modernes
Histoire de la danse | Danse et danseurs Large portions of this manual on the history of dance are borrowed from other sources including Mme Élise Voiart's Essai sur la danse (1823). The author begins with an examination of Greek and Roman dance and continues through the court dances of Louis XII and Catherine de Médicis. The discussion on French theatrical dance includes mention of two well-known ballerinas, Fanny Elssler and Fanny...- Contributor: Fertiault, F. (François)
- Date: 1854
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Book/Printed MaterialSketches relative to the history and theory, but more especially to the practice of dancing ... Intended as hints to the young teachers of the art of dancing
Sketches relative to the art of dancing This manual begins with a discussion on the importance of dance for youth and outlines the origins of dance. Although much of the historical and theoretical text is borrowed from other dance writers--notably Giovanni-Andrea Gallini and John Weaver--the manual is important for its description of the Scotch reel and accompanying ten reel steps. Some of the steps include kemshóole (forward step), minor and double...- Contributor: Peacock, Francis
- Date: 1805
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Book/Printed MaterialQuelques mots sur les danses modernes, This is a fourth edition of a book that acknowledges other antidance tracts including Boullay's Réforme de las danse des salons; Gustave Louis's Physiologie de l'opinion, and La Chrétienne de nos jours by l'Abbé Bautain. The author notes, with some disdain, that the waltz was introduced into France "par les impures du Directoire" (p. 8). The polka also receives criticism.
- Contributor: Brieux Saint-Laurent
- Date: 1863
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Book/Printed MaterialMay Christians dance? This is a typical example of the antidance literature that was published during the nineteenth century. Although Brookes provides a weak defense of dancing, his final conclusion is that the large assemblies, indelicate dressing, "unwarrantable freedom of intercourse between the sexes," as well as uncontrolled excitement, leads to a thorough worldliness and, ultimately, to the forgetfulness of God. The manual was reissued in the...
- Contributor: Brookes, James H. (James Hall)
- Date: 1869
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Book/Printed MaterialThe modern dance,
- Contributor: Brookes, James H. (James Hall)
- Date: 189?
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Book/Printed MaterialAn essay on dancing
- Contributor: Crane, J. T. (Jonathan Townley)
- Date: 1849
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