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Book/Printed Material Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano Quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter

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Title

  • Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano

Other Title

  • Quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter

Created / Published

  • Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, [c1878], monographic.

Headings

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

Genre

  • book

Notes

  • -  Music: p. 161-230.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Form

  • print
  • electronic resource
  • remote

Extent

  • 230 p. 18 cm.

Repository

  • Music Division

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05035054

Online Format

  • 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:

Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic, 1878] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05035054/.

APA citation style:

(1878) Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05035054/.

MLA citation style:

Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano. [Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, monographic, 1878] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05035054/>.