Book/Printed Material A complete practical guide to the art of dancing Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc Hillgrove's complete guide to the art of dancing


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Title
A complete practical guide to the art of dancing Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc
Other Title
Hillgrove's complete guide to the art of dancing
Contributor Names
Hillgrove, Thomas.
Created / Published
Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, [c1863], monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
-  Etiquette -- United States
-  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
Genre
book
Notes
-  By Thomas Hillgrove ... (statement of responsibility)
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (additional physical form)
Form
print
electronic resource
remote
Extent
237 p. incl. front., illus. 17 cm.
Repository
Music Division
Library of Congress Control Number
33022405
Online Format
online text
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Description
Book. print | 237 p. incl. front., illus. 17 cm. | By Thomas Hillgrove ... (Statement Of Responsibility). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (Additional Physical Form). Print (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
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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:

Hillgrove, Thomas. A complete practical guide to the art of dancing Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic, 1863] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/33022405/.

APA citation style:

Hillgrove, T. (1863) A complete practical guide to the art of dancing Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/33022405/.

MLA citation style:

Hillgrove, Thomas. A complete practical guide to the art of dancing Containing descriptions of all fashionable and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic, 1863] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/33022405/>.