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Book/Printed Material The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance

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Title

  • The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance

Created / Published

  • H. G. O. Washburn, Belfast, Me, 1863, monographic.

Headings

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

Genre

  • book

Notes

  • -  Introduction signed: W. H. Q.
  • -  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

  • iv, [5]-30, ii p. 8 cm.

Repository

  • Music Division

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001785

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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The accompanying videos were produced by the Library of Congress. Note Video Performers for additional credits for video performers.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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:

The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance. H. G. O. Washburn, Belfast, Me, monographic, 1863. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.011/.

APA citation style:

(1863) The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance. H. G. O. Washburn, Belfast, Me, monographic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.011/.

MLA citation style:

The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance. H. G. O. Washburn, Belfast, Me, monographic, 1863. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/musdi.011/>.