Add to ORKGSimilar to other prompter's books published during the last half of the nineteenth century, French gives instructions for calling the figures of quadrilles including examples of how the calls correlate to the music. The book also covers the calling of contra dances (progressive figure dances performed by a column of men facing a column of women)
This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called co...
As was common practice during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of this text was bo...
This is a typical example of a manual compiled from previously published materials and assembled by ...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from pr...
This manual is devoted entirely to the art of calling figures for the quadrille. The book provides t...
This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Alth...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
The publisher of this tiny manual (called a "vest pocket edition") notes that of the many books avai...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and its contents are typical of simil...
The author of this manual declares that "every person should be able to dance ... quadrilles without...
One of the most important manuals devoted to the performance of early nineteenth-century quadrilles,...
A translation of Gourdoux-Daux's Principes de la danse (Paris, 1804 and 1811), this manual is import...
Foreshadowing the growing trend of late nineteenth-century dance manuals to reduce discussion on eti...
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is adv...
This manual is acknowledged to be a compilation of previously published materials and, in fact, Kopp...
This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called co...
As was common practice during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of this text was bo...
This is a typical example of a manual compiled from previously published materials and assembled by ...
Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from pr...
This manual is devoted entirely to the art of calling figures for the quadrille. The book provides t...
This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Alth...
A translation of La danse des salons (1847), this manual provides important information on mid-ninet...
The publisher of this tiny manual (called a "vest pocket edition") notes that of the many books avai...
This manual is a compilation of previously published materials and its contents are typical of simil...
The author of this manual declares that "every person should be able to dance ... quadrilles without...
One of the most important manuals devoted to the performance of early nineteenth-century quadrilles,...
A translation of Gourdoux-Daux's Principes de la danse (Paris, 1804 and 1811), this manual is import...
Foreshadowing the growing trend of late nineteenth-century dance manuals to reduce discussion on eti...
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is adv...
This manual is acknowledged to be a compilation of previously published materials and, in fact, Kopp...
This is the first manual to be published in France that describes English country dances. Called co...
As was common practice during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of this text was bo...
This is a typical example of a manual compiled from previously published materials and assembled by ...