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Book/Printed Material The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo

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Title

  • The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo

Summary

  • Like many other nineteenth-century dance manuals, much of the material in The prompter comes from previously published materials. The treatise opens with a brief discussion of etiquette and continues with figures for quadrilles. Additionally, the manual discusses "Le quadrille Français," De Garmo's terminology for English country dances, and gives eighty-seven figures for the cotillon, a popular group dance that takes the form of a series of party games.

Names

  • De Garmo, Wm. B. (William B.)

Created / Published

  • New York, Raymond & Caulon, Printers, 1865.

Headings

  • -  German (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Quadrille (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

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

Medium

  • 78 p. 14 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .D325

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 06004853

Online Format

  • image

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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:

De Garmo, Wm. B. The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo. New York, Raymond & Caulon, Printers, 1865. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/06004853/.

APA citation style:

De Garmo, W. B. (1865) The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo. New York, Raymond & Caulon, Printers. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/06004853/.

MLA citation style:

De Garmo, Wm. B. The prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. Designed for the assistance of the pupils of Wm. B. De Garmo. New York, Raymond & Caulon, Printers, 1865. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/06004853/>.