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Book/Printed Material Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing (choregraphy) with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe

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Title

  • Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing (choregraphy) with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe

Names

  • Zorn, Friedrich Albert.

Created / Published

  • [The Heintzemann Press], Boston, Mass, 1905, monographic.

Headings

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

Genre

  • book

Notes

  • -  Translated by Benjamin P. Coates.
  • -  Supplemented by: "Musical score of the Grammar of the art of dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe ..." (1 p.l., 37 p. 21x28 cm.) published: Boston, Mass., 1905. Call number: GV1751.Z9 score.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Form

  • print
  • electronic resource
  • remote

Extent

  • xviii p., 1 l., 3-302 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. music) 28 cm.

Repository

  • Music Division

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05039056

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:

Zorn, Friedrich Albert. Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing choregraphy with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe. [The Heintzemann Press, Boston, Mass, monographic, 1905] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05039056/.

APA citation style:

Zorn, F. A. (1905) Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing choregraphy with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe. [The Heintzemann Press, Boston, Mass, monographic] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05039056/.

MLA citation style:

Zorn, Friedrich Albert. Grammar of the art of dancing, theoretical and practical lessons in the arts of dancing and dance writing choregraphy with drawings, musical examples, choregraphic symbols, and special music scores, translated from the German of Friedrich Albert Zorn... edited by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe. [The Heintzemann Press, Boston, Mass, monographic, 1905] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05039056/>.