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Book/Printed Material Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the Baden, mazurka figures &c. &c. to which is appended the music of the celebrated Redowa waltz, now first published in the United States

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Title

  • Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the Baden, mazurka figures &c. &c. to which is appended the music of the celebrated Redowa waltz, now first published in the United States

Summary

  • Compiled by a publisher and small enough to fit into a pocket, this manual gives directions for polka quadrilles, mazurka quadrilles, and "The New Redowa," all "as taught by Mr. Durang and daughter." Other dances include a waltz cotillion, gallopade quadrille, and Spanish Dance.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia, New York, Turner & Fisher [c1847]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  At head of t.-p.: "The poetry of motion."

Medium

  • 1 p.l., [12] p. front. 12 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1753 .L43

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001777

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:

Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the Baden, mazurka figures &c. &c. to which is appended the music of the celebrated Redowa waltz, now first published in the United States. [Philadelphia, New York, Turner & Fisher, 1847] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001777/.

APA citation style:

(1847) Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the Baden, mazurka figures &c. &c. to which is appended the music of the celebrated Redowa waltz, now first published in the United States. [Philadelphia, New York, Turner & Fisher] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001777/.

MLA citation style:

Leaflets of the ball room. Being a sketch of the polka quadrilles, the Baden, mazurka figures &c. &c. to which is appended the music of the celebrated Redowa waltz, now first published in the United States. [Philadelphia, New York, Turner & Fisher, 1847] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001777/>.