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Book/Printed Material The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner; containing the most complete sets of quadrilles ever published Ball-room monitor

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Title

  • The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner; containing the most complete sets of quadrilles ever published

Other Title

  • Ball-room monitor

Summary

  • Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The Ball-room monitor is not original but is borrowed from previously published sources. The manual, which would fit into a pocket, contains information on quadrilles (called cotillions by Brooks), waltz, polka redowa, and schottisch. Additionally, the manual contains numerous variety quadrilles--polka quadrilles, schottisch quadrilles, Polaca quadrilles, Varsoviana quadrilles, and a mazurka quadrille.

Names

  • Brooks, C. (Professor)

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia, J. H. Johnson [c1866]

Headings

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

Medium

  • 63 p. 13 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B85

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001993

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:

Brooks, C. The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner; containing the most complete sets of quadrilles ever published. [Philadelphia, J. H. Johnson, 1866] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001993/.

APA citation style:

Brooks, C. (1866) The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner; containing the most complete sets of quadrilles ever published. [Philadelphia, J. H. Johnson] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001993/.

MLA citation style:

Brooks, C. The ball-room monitor, or, Guide to the learner; containing the most complete sets of quadrilles ever published. [Philadelphia, J. H. Johnson, 1866] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001993/>.