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Book/Printed Material American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances including all the latest and most fashionable ... with elegant illustrations, and full explanation and every variety of the latest and most approved figures, and calls for the different changes, and rules on deportment and the toilet, and the etiquette of dancing

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Title

  • American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances including all the latest and most fashionable ... with elegant illustrations, and full explanation and every variety of the latest and most approved figures, and calls for the different changes, and rules on deportment and the toilet, and the etiquette of dancing

Summary

  • This is one of several manuals credited to the well-known American inventor, Elias Howe. Like many nineteenth-century dance manuals, it is a compilation of other sources and assembled by a publisher. The book begins with a brief description of etiquette of the ballroom and continues with information on the supper room and how to arrange balls. The work also discusses many popular group dances including the quadrille, country dance, and German or parlor cotillon as well as round dances--polka, schottisch, esmeralda, polka redowa, and zingerilla.

Names

  • Howe, Elias, 1820-1895

Created / Published

  • Boston, E. Howe, 1862.

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • 160 p. illus. 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .H84 1862

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05029720

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Howe, Elias. American Dancing Master, and Ball-Room Prompter: Containing About Five Hundred Dances Including All the Latest and Most Fashionable ... With Elegant Illustrations, and Full Explanation and Every Variety of the Latest and Most Approved Figures, and Calls for the Different Changes, and Rules on Deportment and the Toilet, and the Etiquette of Dancing. Boston, E. Howe, 1862. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05029720/.

APA citation style:

Howe, E. (1862) American Dancing Master, and Ball-Room Prompter: Containing About Five Hundred Dances Including All the Latest and Most Fashionable ... With Elegant Illustrations, and Full Explanation and Every Variety of the Latest and Most Approved Figures, and Calls for the Different Changes, and Rules on Deportment and the Toilet, and the Etiquette of Dancing. Boston, E. Howe. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05029720/.

MLA citation style:

Howe, Elias. American Dancing Master, and Ball-Room Prompter: Containing About Five Hundred Dances Including All the Latest and Most Fashionable ... With Elegant Illustrations, and Full Explanation and Every Variety of the Latest and Most Approved Figures, and Calls for the Different Changes, and Rules on Deportment and the Toilet, and the Etiquette of Dancing. Boston, E. Howe, 1862. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05029720/>.