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Book/Printed Material The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author Art of dancing

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Title

  • The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author

Other Title

  • Art of dancing

Summary

  • Although much of the material in this manual is borrowed from the dance writings of Charles Durang, it remains an important source for the study of mid-nineteenth-century ballroom dance. Unlike other contemporary writers, Ferrero devotes more than eighty pages to the origins of dance and a history of European and Native American dance. The remaining part of the manual concerns ballroom etiquette and descriptions of numerous dances including the quadrille, waltz, polka, schottisch, varsovienne, polka mazurka, and galop. Ferrero gives directions for more than eighty figures of the cotillon, a group dance performed as a series of party games. Some of the figures include "The scarf," "The glass of wine," "The sea during a storm," "The four chairs," and "The rounds thwarted." The manual concludes with music for twenty-three dances.

Names

  • Ferrero, Edward, 1831-1899

Created / Published

  • New York, The author, 1859.

Headings

  • -  Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance music--19th century
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
  • -  Music for Dance

Notes

  • -  Music: 103 pages.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • xii, 13-181, 103 p. illus. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .F5
  • GV1751 .F5 LC Copy 2. From the Cesi Kellinger collection of dance materials. Inscribed by Juliet White.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05038225

Online Format

  • image

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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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Chicago citation style:

Ferrero, Edward. The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author. New York, The author, 1859. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05038225/.

APA citation style:

Ferrero, E. (1859) The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author. New York, The author. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05038225/.

MLA citation style:

Ferrero, Edward. The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances, as executed at the private academies of the author. New York, The author, 1859. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05038225/>.