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Prompting: How to Do It — Containing the Figures of All Modern Dances in Common Use, and How to Call Them (John M. Schell, NYC and Chicago 1890)
Publisher: John M. Schell / Carl Fischer (Inc.), New York / Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Library of Congress catalog: MD 1767 .S33 P76 1890. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1890-Schell-Prompting_(Arc).txt (~4566 lines OCR; Internet Archive). FORMAT: American dance-caller prompting compendium with two parts. PART I (Squares): The March + Sicilian Circle, Twelve Plain Quadrilles (1st through 12th), Portland Fancy, Caledonian, Ninepin Quadrille, Walk Around, Standard Lancers, Original Lancers, Saratoga Lancers, Centennial / Double Lancers, Minuet Lancers, Waltz Lancers, Rage Quadrille (as taught by Harry E. Monroe), Waltz Quadrille, Fancy Medley. PART II (Contras, ~80 named figures): American Hornpipe, Annie's Fancy, Arkansas Traveller, Beaux of Albany, Beaux of Oak Hill, Bennett's Favorite Reel, Boston Fancy, Bricklayers' Hornpipe, Buckley's Favorite Reel, Buenavista, Campbells are Coming, Camptown Hornpipe, Chase the Lady, Chase the Squirrel, Cheat the Lady, Chorus Jig, Christmas Hornpipe, Cincinnati Hornpipe, Cinderella Waltz, Circassian Circle, College Hornpipe, Constitution Hornpipe, Democratic Hornpipe, Derby Hornpipe, Downfall of Paris, Drunken Sailor, Dundee Hornpipe, Eight-Hand Reel, Fiddle-Bow Reel, Figure Eight, Flowers of Edinburgh, Follow Me Harry, French Four, Galway Reel, German Polka, Girl I Left Behind Me, Good for the Tongue, Good Girl, Guilderoy, Half Moon, Highland Reel, Highland Schottische, Irish Hornpipe, Jordan is a Hard Road, Lady of the Lake, Land of Sweet Erin, Life Let Us Cherish, Light Artillery, Light Dragoon, Maid in the Pump Room, Merry Dance, Merry Haymakers, Merry Midsummer, Money Musk, Sir Roger de Coverley, Virginia Reel, et al. The 1890 Schell prompter's manual represents the post-Civil-War American dance-caller tradition codifying the Lancers (5 variants) and Twelve Plain Quadrilles, with extensive contra/reel/hornpipe content preserving Anglo-Celtic-American social-dance vocabulary. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (call-by-call counts in (4)/(8)-bar bracket notation throughout; no step-level granularity for waltz/polka steps; full figure call sequences for contras and quadrilles).Year: 1890Family: schellCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by John M. Schell / Carl Fischer (Inc.), New York / Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Library of Congress catalog: MD 1767 .S33 P76 1890. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1890-Schell-Prompting_(Arc).txt (~4566 lines OCR; Internet Archive). FORMAT: American dance-caller prompting compendium with two parts. PART I (Squares): The March + Sicilian Circle, Twelve Plain Quadrilles (1st through 12th), Portland Fancy, Caledonian, Ninepin Quadrille, Walk Around, Standard Lancers, Original Lancers, Saratoga Lancers, Centennial / Double Lancers, Minuet Lancers, Waltz Lancers, Rage Quadrille (as taught by Harry E. Monroe), Waltz Quadrille, Fancy Medley. PART II (Contras, ~80 named figures): American Hornpipe, Annie's Fancy, Arkansas Traveller, Beaux of Albany, Beaux of Oak Hill, Bennett's Favorite Reel, Boston Fancy, Bricklayers' Hornpipe, Buckley's Favorite Reel, Buenavista, Campbells are Coming, Camptown Hornpipe, Chase the Lady, Chase the Squirrel, Cheat the Lady, Chorus Jig, Christmas Hornpipe, Cincinnati Hornpipe, Cinderella Waltz, Circassian Circle, College Hornpipe, Constitution Hornpipe, Democratic Hornpipe, Derby Hornpipe, Downfall of Paris, Drunken Sailor, Dundee Hornpipe, Eight-Hand Reel, Fiddle-Bow Reel, Figure Eight, Flowers of Edinburgh, Follow Me Harry, French Four, Galway Reel, German Polka, Girl I Left Behind Me, Good for the Tongue, Good Girl, Guilderoy, Half Moon, Highland Reel, Highland Schottische, Irish Hornpipe, Jordan is a Hard Road, Lady of the Lake, Land of Sweet Erin, Life Let Us Cherish, Light Artillery, Light Dragoon, Maid in the Pump Room, Merry Dance, Merry Haymakers, Merry Midsummer, Money Musk, Sir Roger de Coverley, Virginia Reel, et al. The 1890 Schell prompter's manual represents the post-Civil-War American dance-caller tradition codifying the Lancers (5 variants) and Twelve Plain Quadrilles, with extensive contra/reel/hornpipe content preserving Anglo-Celtic-American social-dance vocabulary. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (call-by-call counts in (4)/(8)-bar bracket notation throughout; no step-level granularity for waltz/polka steps; full figure call sequences for contras and quadrilles). (1890). Imported from local collection.