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Film, Video Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dance: Polka mazurka and the Gitana waltz

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Title

  • Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dance: Polka mazurka and the Gitana waltz

Created / Published

  • monographic.

Notes

  • -  Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich.
  • -  Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers: Susan Manus, violin.
  • -  Music: "Byerly's Waltz" in The social orchestra by Stephen Foster, New York: Firth, Pond, 1854. LOC number: M3.3.F7 56 (case).
  • -  See: p. 148-149 polka mazurka, in Ferrero, E. The art of dancing, (#067),
  • -  See: p. 175 polka mazurka , p. 187 gitana (called La Carlowitzka) in Hillgrove, T. A complete practical guide to the art of dancing, (#093),
  • -  See: p. 111 polka mazurka, p. 113 gitana (called gintana) in Howe, E. American dancing master, (#102),

Form

  • videorecording
  • videoreel

Extent

  • 1 digital file. Duration: 0:41

Online Format

  • video

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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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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dance: Polka mazurka and the Gitana waltz. Monographic. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdivid.057/.

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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dance: Polka mazurka and the Gitana waltz. Monographic. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/musdivid.057/>.