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008 781018s1859 nyuag 000 0 eng
010 $a 05038225
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aGV1751$b.F5
100 1 $aFerrero, Edward,$d1831-1899.
245 14 $aThe art of dancing, historically illustrated.$bTo 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.$cBy Edward Ferrero.
246 30 $aArt of dancing
260 $aNew York,$bThe author,$c1859.
300 $axii, 13-181, 103 p.$billus.$c19 cm.
500 $aMusic: 103 pages.
520 $aAlthough 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.
530 $aAvailable also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
650 0 $aBallroom dancing$vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 $aDance music$y19th century.
650 4 $aDance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
650 4 $aMusic for Dance.
856 41 $dmusdi$f067$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.067$qs