Book/Printed Material Image 17 of The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates

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Title

  • The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates

Other Title

  • Dancing-master
  • Art of dancing explained

Names

  • Rameau, Pierre.

Created / Published

  • London : Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton, 1728.

Headings

  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  ESTC N44660
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • xxxii, 160 p. : front., 56 pl. (part fold.) ; 25 cm.

Form

  • print
  • electronic resource
  • remote

Extent

  • xxxii, 160 p. front., 56 pl. (part fold.) 25 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1590 .R4
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item R-014b, Reel 166 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 10030397

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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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:

Rameau, Pierre. The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. London: Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton, 1728. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/10030397/.

APA citation style:

Rameau, P. (1728) The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. London: Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/10030397/.

MLA citation style:

Rameau, Pierre. The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. London: Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton, 1728. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/10030397/>.