Book/Printed Material The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum comprising a description of all the principal dances ... With hints and instructions respecting toilet, deportment, &c., &c
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum HILGROVE'S SCHOLARS COMPANION & BALL ROOM VADE MECUM GV 1751 .H65 1857- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum THE SCHOLARS' COMPANION AND BALL-ROOM VIDE MECUM, COMPRISING— A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL DANCES, AS THEY ARE NOW PRACTICED IN NEW YORK. AND IN WHICH THE METHOD OF DANCING THEM IS...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
- Date: 1857
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum GV 1751 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1857, by THOMAS HILLGROVE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum M. B. D. June 24'05. DANCING TAUGHT IN ALL THE FASHIONABLE STYLES, BY T. HILLGROVE, Where persons may be instructed privately or in classes at any hour not pre-occupied. Parents sending their...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum Contents. Preface 7 Dancing 9 The Toilet 12 The Ball Room 15 Private Dancing 19 Deportment 22 The Quadrille 25 Description of the First Set of Quadrilles 28 Quadrille Basket 32 "...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 6 Spanish Dance 68 Sicilian Circle 70 Rustic Reel 71 Virginia Reel 71 Pop Goes the Weazel 73 Swedish Dance 73 Circassian Circle 75 Contra Dances—Money Musk, Chorus Jig, the Waterman 78...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum Preface. Mr. T. Hillgrove , for the accommodation of his pupils, and in compliance with the wishes of many friends, has been induced to publish the following collection of Dances. Convinced of...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
- Date: 1857
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 8 when a dance is called, the parties will only have to desire the band to play the number of parts required, agreeable to the one chosen. As particular instructions are given...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum Dancing. An old author says:—“In classing this elegant accomplishment with the fine arts, we adopt the distinction made by the ingenious author of a work, entitled “ Les Beaux Arts reduits a...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 10 end which it can answer. A few lines may therefore be deemed well employed in the illustration of this point. “Few persons can be uninformed of the good effects of exercise...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 11 people who were once refined and polished by its inspiration, relapse into barbarism, or give place to others more spirited than they. So long as dancing prevailed among the nations of...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum The Toilet. The first thing for a lady to consider is simplicity of attire, whether the material be cheap or costly—such simplicity as produces the finest effect with the least apparent labor...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 13 net over it, and it is the generally received opinion that the less trimming the dress has the better. On this point, however, individual taste may sometimes successfully make a deviation...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 14 they trim it with such colors as their taste dictates. But mourning black is decorated with scarlet only. A black satin dress looks best when covered with net tarleton or crape;...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum The Ball Room. Ball Rooms , like tastes, vary so much that it is impossible to describe the particular form that prevails. But that which gives the greatest satisfaction is a room...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 16 should not be refused by the lady if she be not already engaged, for a refusal would be a breach in the law of good manners. As the master of ceremonies...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 17 the lady is engaged with another. Never whisper to a lady, nor lounge about on chairs or sofas while the dance is proceeding. Avoid all unfriendly or ungenerous criticism, ridicule, or...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 18 No gentleman should offer his services to conduct a lady home, without being acquainted with her, or requested so to do by the host or hostess When retiring from a private...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum Private Dancing. Many of the votaries of this accomplishment are impressed with the idea that the art and figures of dancing can be acquired without the aid of a master, as diagrams...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 20 introducing one's self—and of carrying one's self in company, are essential points, and such as ought to be rendered as natural as possible. To execute the bow properly, the following rules...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 21 Dancing and etiquette are inseparable; they must go hand in hand to impart pleasure, and secure a just moral result. There are a few persons who aim at notoriety by their...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum Deportment, And what is considered to be proper in a Ball Room . These ceremonies vary in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same, which is generally the result of...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 23 therefore a practice that should at once be stopped, as persons who really respect themselves or the company they are with, will not be guilty of this or any other degrading,...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 24 partner, and then to the lady on the left. This is generally omitted in private society. When dancing with a lady to whom you are a stranger, be cautious in all...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 25 The Quadrille. This favorite dance is not only the most social, but is the most universally approved of all the fashionable dances, because it more frequently admits of an agreeable conversation,...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 26 kind feeling should exist, through the modest spirit of the dance. Many times have friends observed, in speaking of the above recklessness, that instead of acting the part of a lady...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 27 In forming for Quadrilles, the ladies are always on the right of the gentlemen; the first couple towards the head of the room—the second couple opposite the first—the third couple on...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 28 With these simple descriptions, I shall now proceed to explain the figures of the first set, which is commonly called a plain Quadrille, and is really the only popular set that...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 29 LADIES CHAIN—The first and second lady cross to opposite places, giving the right hand as they pass each other, and the left hand to the opposite gentlemen; both gentlemen turn the...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 30 own partner the right hand; the gentlemen do not cross their arms. (Eight bars.) BALANCE—The four then balance (or set) in a circle—eight steps—holding each other's hands (four bars), and then...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 31 and the second gentleman then retires alone. (Four bars). FORWARD THREE—The first gentleman and the two ladies then forward and back (four bars), forward again, and after the ladies have turned...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 32 a circle, and passing round to the left, until all regain their own places. N. B.—This figure is frequently introduced in place of “All Promenade,” and requires the same length of...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 33 forming a circle, and then four hands round, passing round to the left and back again, then stop, keeping hold of each other's hands, and standing close together in the centre....- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 34 THIRD SET . Quadrille Cheat and Fig. In this Dance, the first three figures are the same as in the first set. FOURTH FIGURE . THE CHEAT, OR COQUETTE. Music in...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 35 and tedious figure, and there is so much sameness about it that it is seldom danced. The music, however, for this is the same as in the above figure, being thirty-two...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 36 BALANCE TO THE NEXT—And turn as above. (8 bars.) BALANCE TO PARTNERS—And turn to place. (8 bars.) HANDS ALL ROUND* —The same as above. (8 bars.) Sometimes the figure of right...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 37 marching has ceased, and the dancers have all separated from each other. THE LADIES MARCH TO THE RIGHT AND GENTLEMEN TO THE LEFT—ALL FORWARD—Commencing with the music, all march forward to...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 38 all forward and back (4 bars), forward again, and turn partners to places. (8 bars.) Here every person should be careful to recollect who were dancing in the set with them,...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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Hilgrove's scholars companion & ball room vade mecum 39 forming two parallel lines, forward again and change partners, the gentlemen taking each other's places, and the ladles remaining in their own places opposite their partners. (8 bars.) FIRST LADY FORWARD...- Contributor: Hillgrove, Thomas - T. R. Turnbull & Co., Printers
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