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Book/Printed Material Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, together with the figures of the German Complete dancing master and call book

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Title

  • Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, together with the figures of the German

Other Title

  • Complete dancing master and call book

Summary

  • This is a typical example of a manual compiled from previously published materials and assembled by a publisher. The manual contains hints for balls and information on the performance of quadrilles and round dances. The popular parlor game known as the German or cotillon is given fifty-five figures.

Names

  • Harvey, J. H.

Created / Published

  • New York, H. J. Wehman, Publisher [c1889]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • 88 p. illus. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .H33

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001992

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:

Harvey, J. H. Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, together with the figures of the German. [New York, H. J. Wehman, Publisher, 1889] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001992/.

APA citation style:

Harvey, J. H. (1889) Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, together with the figures of the German. [New York, H. J. Wehman, Publisher] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001992/.

MLA citation style:

Harvey, J. H. Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, together with the figures of the German. [New York, H. J. Wehman, Publisher, 1889] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001992/>.