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Title

  • [The code of Terpsichore The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times

Other Title

  • Art of dancing

Names

  • Blasis, Carlo -- 1803-1878

Created / Published

  • E. Bull, London, 1830], monographic.

Headings

  • -  Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance -- History
  • -  Dance music
  • -  Piano music
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Theatrical Dance
  • -  Music for Dance

Genre

  • catalog
  • book

Notes

  • -  by C. Blasis ... Translated under the author's immediate inspection by R. Barton] (statement of responsibility)
  • -  On spine: Code of Terpsichore. By C. Blasis ... With seventeen plates; illustrating upwards of sixty positions. With original quadrilles and waltzes. Arranged for the piano-forte.
  • -  Barton's English translation of Code complet de la danse, which was subsequently translated into French by Paul Vergnaud under title: Manuel complet de la danse.
  • -  "Programmes, containing examples of every species of ballets. Composed by C. Blasis": p. 259-484.
  • -  L.C. copy imperfect: t.-p. wanting; title supplied from the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale.
  • -  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

  • vii p., 22 p. (music), [5]-548 p. 17 pl. 23 cm.

Repository

  • Music Division

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44016304

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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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:

Blasis, Carlo. The code of Terpsichore The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times. [E. Bull, London, monographic, 1830] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/44016304/.

APA citation style:

Blasis, C. (1830) The code of Terpsichore The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times. [E. Bull, London, monographic] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44016304/.

MLA citation style:

Blasis, Carlo. The code of Terpsichore The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times. [E. Bull, London, monographic, 1830] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44016304/>.