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Book/Printed Material The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum

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Title

  • The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c

Other Title

  • Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum

Summary

  • This manual was reissued in 1858 under the title Hillgrove's scholars' companion and ball-room guide ..., and formed the basis for a similar publication, A complete practical guide to the art of dancing, published in 1863. Typical of many nineteenth-century dance manuals, little of the text originated from the pen of New York dancing master Thomas Hillgrove. Instead, much is borrowed from previously published manuals. The scholars' companion gives information on dress, introductions, etiquette and deportment and describes the most popular ballroom dances of the day--quadrille, waltz, polka, schottisch, polka redowa, polka mazurka, gorlitza, and redowa. Noticeably missing from Hillgrove's manual is any reference to the popular group dance known as the cotillon or German.

Names

  • Hillgrove, Thomas

Created / Published

  • New York, T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers, 1857.

Headings

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

Notes

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

Medium

  • 96 p. diagrs. 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .H65 1857
  • Microfilm 84/5577 (GV) Microfilm.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001940

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:

Hillgrove, Thomas. The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c. New York, T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers, 1857. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001940/.

APA citation style:

Hillgrove, T. (1857) The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c. New York, T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001940/.

MLA citation style:

Hillgrove, Thomas. The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c. New York, T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers, 1857. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001940/>.