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Book/Printed Material The art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books Art of dancing explain'd

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Title

  • The art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books

Other Title

  • Art of dancing explain'd

Summary

  • The title page indicates the book was completed in 1724. However, the cost of the thirty-five full-page plates precluded publication until 1735. In this treatise of two parts, Tomlinson (c. 1690-1753?) sets forth the principles of Baroque dance. Book one covers description of twenty nine steps; book two discusses the minuet, including four methods of performing the minuet step.

Names

  • Tomlinson, Kellom

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for the author, M.DCC.XXXV [1735]

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Minuet (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Genre

  • Bookplates (Provenance)--DLC

Notes

  • -  The frontispiece is dated 1754.
  • -  Many of the plates contain tunes for the dances which they illustrate.
  • -  ESTC T153182
  • -  LC Copy: Ex libris.
  • -  LAC ael 2021-06-17 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 12 p.l., [3]-159, [1] p. : front. (port.) 37 pl. ; 30 x 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT950.A2 T6
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item T-045, Reel 200 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1984]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 20010870

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:

Tomlinson, Kellom. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year , and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books. [London: Printed for the author, M.DCC.XXXV, 1735] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/20010870/.

APA citation style:

Tomlinson, K. (1735) The art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year , and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books. [London: Printed for the author, M.DCC.XXXV] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/20010870/.

MLA citation style:

Tomlinson, Kellom. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures, whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method: being the original work, first design'd in the year , and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ... In two books. [London: Printed for the author, M.DCC.XXXV, 1735] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/20010870/>.