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Book/Printed Material Coulon's hand-book; containing all the last new and fashionable dances, and also some important remarks on dancing & deportment Coulon's hand book of dancing / Hand book of dancing

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Title

  • Coulon's hand-book; containing all the last new and fashionable dances, and also some important remarks on dancing & deportment

Other Title

  • Coulon's hand book of dancing
  • Hand book of dancing

Summary

  • This is an expanded version of a manual published under the same title in 1866. It is not known whether or not famed Paris dancing master Coulon actually participated in the assembly of this manual. Most of the manual is a compilation from earlier sources. Demonstrating a growing late nineteenth-century interest in physical education, this new version adds a series of exercises to be performed with poles, dumb-bells, and elastics. Additional exercises emphasize walking, running, and jumping. The manual describes the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrille, waltz, and polka.

Names

  • Coulon, 1808-

Created / Published

  • London, A. Hammond & Co. [1873]

Headings

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

Notes

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

Medium

  • xii, 153 p. illus. (incl. music) 13 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .C85 1873

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 42041571

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:

Coulon. Coulon's Hand-Book; Containing All the Last New and Fashionable Dances, and Also Some Important Remarks on Dancing & Deportment. [London, A. Hammond & Co, 1873] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/42041571/.

APA citation style:

Coulon. (1873) Coulon's Hand-Book; Containing All the Last New and Fashionable Dances, and Also Some Important Remarks on Dancing & Deportment. [London, A. Hammond & Co] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/42041571/.

MLA citation style:

Coulon. Coulon's Hand-Book; Containing All the Last New and Fashionable Dances, and Also Some Important Remarks on Dancing & Deportment. [London, A. Hammond & Co, 1873] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/42041571/>.