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Book/Printed Material Brookes on modern dancing, containing a full description of all dances, as practised in the ball room and at private parties, together with an essay on etiquette

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Title

  • Brookes on modern dancing, containing a full description of all dances, as practised in the ball room and at private parties, together with an essay on etiquette

Summary

  • The format for this manual is typical of nineteenth-century dance treatises. It begins with a short discussion on the utility of dancing, followed by a section devoted to etiquette of the ballroom and how to give balls. Descriptions of dances in this manual include quadrilles, waltz, polka, polka redowa, schottisch, polka mazurka, varsovienne, and the waltz in 5/4. The book concludes with eighty-seven cotillon figures and eight pages of ballroom dance music.

Names

  • Brookes, L. De G. (Laurence De Garmo)

Created / Published

  • New York [The author] 1867.

Headings

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

Notes

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

Medium

  • 2 p.l., [3]-94, [10] p. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B84

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001949

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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:

Brookes, L. De G. Brookes on Modern Dancing, Containing a Full Description of All Dances, as Practised in the Ball Room and at Private Parties, Together With an Essay on Etiquette. [New York The author, 1867] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001949/.

APA citation style:

Brookes, L. D. G. (1867) Brookes on Modern Dancing, Containing a Full Description of All Dances, as Practised in the Ball Room and at Private Parties, Together With an Essay on Etiquette. [New York The author] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001949/.

MLA citation style:

Brookes, L. De G. Brookes on Modern Dancing, Containing a Full Description of All Dances, as Practised in the Ball Room and at Private Parties, Together With an Essay on Etiquette. [New York The author, 1867] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001949/>.