![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Cartier and Baron's practical illustrated waltz instructor, ball room guide, and call book. Giving ample directions for dancing every kind of square and round dances, together with cotillons--including the newest and most popular figures of "the german.
The author of this manual claims that many books on dance lack simple explanations; this work is advertised as an answer to that criticism. The author has dispensed with "all unnecessary verbiage and figures of speech" in describing round dances and figures for the German (also know as the cotillon). Nearly half the book is devoted to quadrilles and calls for the prompter.
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| Constitution of the Va. Polytechnic Institute German Club.
This revised constitution lists the objectives of a club organized to hold dances that consisted solely of the German, a popular parlor game wherein the participants performed a series of party games to music. The constitution lists the duties of the officers and standing committees, which included committees for refreshments, invitations, reception, and music. Part of the constitution noted that "no member of the Club shall drink any intoxicating liquor within twenty-four hours immediately prec...
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| Cartier's practical illustrated waltz instructor, ball room guide, and call book. Giving ample directions for dancing every kind of square and round dances, together with cotillons--including the newest and most popular figures of "the german.
This is a compilation of previously published materials on the subject of nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Some of the dance descriptions represent popular favorites from decades past, such as the polka and schottisch. Other dance descriptions, including the Newport, racquet, and society waltz, were popular during the 1880s.
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| Coulon's hand-book; containing all the last new and fashionable dances ... - Coulon ...
This is the third edition of Coulon's manual and describes dances popular during the 1840s. Typical of many nineteenth-century ballroom manuals, much of the material is borrowed from other contemporary sources. It is not known whether or not famed French dancing master Eugène Coulon contributed to the work. Small enough to fit into a pocket, the manual begins with a discussion of the polka and includes directions for various ballroom dances including the mazurka quadrille, polka mazurka, schott...
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| Court Memoirs Of France Series -- Complete - Various
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| CSNET Liaison Activities with Other networks - Landweber
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| Coulon's Hand-book; containing all the last new and fashionable dances, and also some important remarks on dancing & deportment ... - Coulon ...
This is an expanded version of a manual published under the same title in 1866. It it not known whether or not famed Paris dancing master Coulon actually participated in the assembly of this manual. Most of the manual is compilation from earlier sources. Demonstrating a growing late nineteenth--century interest in physical education, this new version adds a series of exercises to be performed with poles, dumb-bells, and elastics...
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| Categories 2 - Books
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| Cotillion figures, - Joel H. Watkins.
Red and black diagrams are utilized to show the floor patterns of more than twenty figures for the cotillon (also known as the German), a series of party game figures performed to music and an important staple of the ballroom repertory during the last half of the nineteenth century. The figures in Watkins book are, in fact, many of the same figures used in the grand march.
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| Course of instruction in dancing and aesthetic development of the body - L. F. Segadlo ...
This is a translation by Segadlo of an article, by an unknown author, found in the Universal Gazette, published in Vienna, Austria. It is a strong defense of dance and exercise, a subject that was often discussed during the late nineteenth century. The manual concludes with three sets of quadrilles as taught by the author, "Princeton University Lancers," "Saratoga Lancers," and the plain quadrille.
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| Clog dancing made easy. The elements and practice of that art arranged, simplified and corrected ... - Henry Tucker.
This manual contains instructions for twelve steps that, according to the author, can be learned by practicing two hours a day. Libretti and music are provided for four musical comedy sketches that require clog dancing.
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| Clendenen's treatise on elementary and classical dancing ... - F. Leslie Clendenen ...
Dancing master Clendenen's book is meant for teachers of dance and he covers the basic building blocks of teaching beginning with the positions of the feet and body. Technical terms (with correct pronunciation), preparatory exercises, bows and curtseys are included as well as sections of attitudes and poses, correct and incorrect positions. The manual concludes with instructions on how to teach ten fancy dances that include "Highland Fling," "Sailor's Hornpipe," "Twentieth-Century Skirt Dance," ...
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| Captain Fracasse - Gautier, Theophile
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| CSNET Planning. Group Meeting - Bruce Arden
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| Coordinated Information Services for a Discipline- or Mission-Oriented Community - Engelbart, D. C.
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| CSNET -The Computer Science Research Network - National scientist foundation
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| Computer Communication Impacts and Implications. The first International Conference on Computer Communication - Winkler, S. ed
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 04 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Chorégraphie ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances. - Mrs Feuillet et Dezais ...
Originally published in 1700, this manual details a dance notation system that indicates the placement of the feet and six basic leg movements: plié, releveé, sauté, cabriole, tombé, and glissé. Changes of body direction and numerous ornamentations of the legs and arms are also part of the system. The system is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance...
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| Commission In Lunacy, The - Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 09 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Christ In Flanders - Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
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| Cressy - Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
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| Crime And Punishment 8-bit text (with accented letters) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
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| Computer networking for scientist - Jennings, D. M. Landweber, L.
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 12 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Caught In The Net - Gaboriau, Emile, 1832-1873
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| Christopher Columbus And The New World Of His Discovery -- Volume 3 - Young, Filson, 1876-1938
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| Complete Plays Of John Galsworthy - Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
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| Complete Essays - Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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| Cash Boy, The - Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899
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| Common Sense - Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 05 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 01 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Cast Upon The Breakers - Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899
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| Complete Short Works of George Meredith - Meredith, George, 1828-1909
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| Clarence - Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
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| Cousin Betty - Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
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| Causes Of Discontent - Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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| California Romantic And Resourceful; : a plea for the collection, preservation and diffusion of information relating to Pacific coast history - Davis, John Francis,1859-1930
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Complete - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Complete Project Gutenberg Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner, The - Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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| Civil Disobedience - Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 10 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Cy Whittaker's Place - Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944
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| Cousin Pons - Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
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| Charmed Life, A - Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916
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| Caged Lion, The - Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901
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| Confessions Of J. J. Rousseau, The -- Volume 07 - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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| Catherine De Medici - Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
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