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Book/Printed Material The pocket ball-room prompter, containing calls for the different changes and figures to all the principal quadrilles, cotillons, country dances and fancy dances of the day

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Title

  • The pocket ball-room prompter, containing calls for the different changes and figures to all the principal quadrilles, cotillons, country dances and fancy dances of the day

Summary

  • This small, pocketsize manual is attributed to American inventor Elias Howe; however, a publisher assembled it. Even though the manual itself is small in size, it manages to pack in a thorough discussion of etiquette of the ballroom and supper room, the differences between public balls and private parties, and how to call quadrilles or cotillons. Descriptions are included for numerous dances including the polka, waltz, schottisch, quadrille, and contra dance.

Names

  • Howe, Elias, 1820-1895
  • Miniature Book Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Boston, O. Ditson & Co., c1886.

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.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 47, [1] p. 10 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1767 .H84

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001741

Online Format

  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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The accompanying videos were produced by the Library of Congress. Note Video Performers for additional credits for video performers.

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:

Howe, Elias, and Miniature Book Collection. The Pocket Ball-Room Prompter, Containing Calls for the Different Changes and Figures to All the Principal Quadrilles, Cotillons, Country Dances and Fancy Dances of the Day. Boston, O. Ditson & Co, 1886. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001741/.

APA citation style:

Howe, E. & Miniature Book Collection. (1886) The Pocket Ball-Room Prompter, Containing Calls for the Different Changes and Figures to All the Principal Quadrilles, Cotillons, Country Dances and Fancy Dances of the Day. Boston, O. Ditson & Co. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001741/.

MLA citation style:

Howe, Elias, and Miniature Book Collection. The Pocket Ball-Room Prompter, Containing Calls for the Different Changes and Figures to All the Principal Quadrilles, Cotillons, Country Dances and Fancy Dances of the Day. Boston, O. Ditson & Co, 1886. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001741/>.