Book/Printed Material Image 1 of How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers
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- How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers
- Created / Published
- Tousey & Small, New York, 1878, monographic.
- Subject Headings
- - Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- - Country-dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- - Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
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- book
- Notes
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (additional physical form)
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- electronic resource
- remote
- Extent
- 60 p. 16 cm.
- Repository
- Music Division
- Library of Congress Control Number
- ca05001770
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- online text
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- https://lccn.loc.gov/ca05001770
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- Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection | Articles and Essays | An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920 | Digital Collections
- Today in History - September 11
- Nineteenth Century Social Dance | Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection | Articles and Essays | An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920 | Digital Collections
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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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How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers. Tousey & Small, New York, monographic, 1878. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.098/.
APA citation style:
(1878) How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers. Tousey & Small, New York, monographic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.098/.
MLA citation style:
How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers. Tousey & Small, New York, monographic, 1878. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/musdi.098/>.
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