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Book/Printed Material The drawing-room dances

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Title

  • The drawing-room dances

Summary

  • A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Following a format utilized by many manuals, the work begins with introductory comments on dance, followed by a description of the French quadrille. This is followed by discussion of round dances--the polka, numerous waltzes including waltze à trois temps, and waltze à deux temps--as well as steps and figures for another type of quadrille known as the mazurka quadrille. The manual contains eighty-three figures for a series of dance games, called the cotillon (also known as the German or German cotillon). The manual includes eight full-page prints by Paul Gavarni.

Names

  • Cellarius, Henri

Created / Published

  • London, E. Churton, 1847.

Headings

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

Notes

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

Medium

  • xii, iv, [5]-149 p. viii pl. (incl. front.) 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .C38

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 42051322

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:

Cellarius, Henri. The Drawing-Room Dances. London, E. Churton, 1847. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/42051322/.

APA citation style:

Cellarius, H. (1847) The Drawing-Room Dances. London, E. Churton. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/42051322/.

MLA citation style:

Cellarius, Henri. The Drawing-Room Dances. London, E. Churton, 1847. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/42051322/>.