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Encyclopaedia and Technical Glossary of the Theory and Practice of the Art of Dancing (Charles d'Albert, London, 1913)
Publisher: Charles d'Albert (Vice-President, Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, London). Self-imprint, London 1913. Dedicated to the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers. Source: Internet Archive scan; ABBYY OCR text at DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1913-DAlbert-Encyclopaedia_and_Technical_Glossary_(Arc).txt (~11,942 OCR lines). STRUCTURE: alphabetical glossary of dance terms with detailed step-by-step descriptions for named dances, including: positions (1st-5th + Toe / Point / Ball / Sole / Heel / Intermediate), Anglaise Militaire (numbered figures 1-14), Argentine Tango (cross-reference), Bal Masques, Barn Dance (US import), Berlin Polka (now obsolete), Boston (with Double Boston, Reverse Boston variants), Cake-Walk, Chaine Continue, Chasse Croise, Circassian Circle, Galop, Gavotte, Lancers, Mazurka, Minuet, Pas de Quatre, Polka (with Polka piquee, Polka Bohemian, Bebe Biarritz Baby Polka), Quadrille (numbered Couplets), Schottische, Tango, Two-Step, Valse (with Valse Menuet, Pas de Valse), and ballet-derived steps (pas de basque, pas marche, pas chasse, jete, fouette, ailes de pigeon, echappe, terre-a-terre, ballonne, sissonne anglaise, brise, chasse-croise, ronde-de-jambe, triolet, ciseaux, grand-ecart, ballonne, demi-ailes-de-pigeon, demi-ciseaux). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: first English-language technical encyclopaedia of dance terminology, published 1913 -- the year between the introduction of the Tango to London (1912 Selfridge-Parisian-cabaret import) and the WWI suspension of the London ballroom social season; companion to LOC-1916-WILSON 'Modern Dance Positions' and predating LOC-1922-FRANK 'How to Dance the Tango' by 9 years. d'Albert's ISTD vice-presidency confirms the 1913 Glossary as the institutional ISTD pre-WWI technical reference, establishing the English-school ballet-derived step vocabulary that would be inherited by Silvester 1927 (LOC-1935-SILVESTER), Casani 1927 (CASANI-27), and the post-WWII ISTD ballroom syllabus (ISTD-STD 1994). Has_Step_Detail = Partial: alphabetical entries include detailed bar-by-bar foot-direction prose for many figures but lack the CBM / sway / rise-and-fall / footwork notation required for Has_Step_Detail = Yes; theoretical positional vocabulary is fully articulated.Year: 1913Family: dalbertCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Charles d'Albert (Vice-President, Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, London). Self-imprint, London 1913. Dedicated to the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers. Source: Internet Archive scan; ABBYY OCR text at DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1913-DAlbert-Encyclopaedia_and_Technical_Glossary_(Arc).txt (~11,942 OCR lines). STRUCTURE: alphabetical glossary of dance terms with detailed step-by-step descriptions for named dances, including: positions (1st-5th + Toe / Point / Ball / Sole / Heel / Intermediate), Anglaise Militaire (numbered figures 1-14), Argentine Tango (cross-reference), Bal Masques, Barn Dance (US import), Berlin Polka (now obsolete), Boston (with Double Boston, Reverse Boston variants), Cake-Walk, Chaine Continue, Chasse Croise, Circassian Circle, Galop, Gavotte, Lancers, Mazurka, Minuet, Pas de Quatre, Polka (with Polka piquee, Polka Bohemian, Bebe Biarritz Baby Polka), Quadrille (numbered Couplets), Schottische, Tango, Two-Step, Valse (with Valse Menuet, Pas de Valse), and ballet-derived steps (pas de basque, pas marche, pas chasse, jete, fouette, ailes de pigeon, echappe, terre-a-terre, ballonne, sissonne anglaise, brise, chasse-croise, ronde-de-jambe, triolet, ciseaux, grand-ecart, ballonne, demi-ailes-de-pigeon, demi-ciseaux). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: first English-language technical encyclopaedia of dance terminology, published 1913 -- the year between the introduction of the Tango to London (1912 Selfridge-Parisian-cabaret import) and the WWI suspension of the London ballroom social season; companion to LOC-1916-WILSON 'Modern Dance Positions' and predating LOC-1922-FRANK 'How to Dance the Tango' by 9 years. d'Albert's ISTD vice-presidency confirms the 1913 Glossary as the institutional ISTD pre-WWI technical reference, establishing the English-school ballet-derived step vocabulary that would be inherited by Silvester 1927 (LOC-1935-SILVESTER), Casani 1927 (CASANI-27), and the post-WWII ISTD ballroom syllabus (ISTD-STD 1994). Has_Step_Detail = Partial: alphabetical entries include detailed bar-by-bar foot-direction prose for many figures but lack the CBM / sway / rise-and-fall / footwork notation required for Has_Step_Detail = Yes; theoretical positional vocabulary is fully articulated. (1913). Imported from local collection.