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Dancing (Marguerite Wilson, 1899)
Publisher: Marguerite Wilson / The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Copyright 1899 by The Penn Publishing Company. Source: archive.org identifier dancingcompleteg00wils (Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library copy; djvu OCR). End-of-19c structured American pedagogical treatise. Square Dances (with Calls): Plain Quadrille (5 numbers; full prompter calls), Waltz Quadrilles No. 1 and No. 2, Additional Quadrille Figures, Minuet Figure (with calls), The Lancers, Waltz Lancers, Saratoga Lancers, The Caledonians, Waltz Caledonians, The Cally Polka Quadrille, Prince Imperial Quadrille, National Guard Quadrille; Contra Dances: Virginia Reel; Round Dances: Waltz, Galop, Polka, Three-Slide Polka, Heel-and-Toe Polka (Bohemienne), Military Schottische, Caprice Waltz, Christmas Polka, Highland Schottische, The Deux-Temps (Two-Step), The Yorke (3/4 evolution from Polka Mazourka), The Polka Mazourka; The Minuet, The Quadrille Minuet. Wilson's roster illustrates the late-1890s expansion of the round-dance vocabulary toward 'novelty' couple dances (Yorke, Caprice, Christmas Polka, Two-Step), and the preservation of the Minuet tradition for ceremonial / instructional use as the Five Positions are taught. Bridges between Sause 1879 and Wirth 1902 / Dodworth 1900 / Castle 1914 in the pre-modern American ballroom corpus.Year: 1899Family: wilsonCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Marguerite Wilson / The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Copyright 1899 by The Penn Publishing Company. Source: archive.org identifier dancingcompleteg00wils (Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library copy; djvu OCR). End-of-19c structured American pedagogical treatise. Square Dances (with Calls): Plain Quadrille (5 numbers; full prompter calls), Waltz Quadrilles No. 1 and No. 2, Additional Quadrille Figures, Minuet Figure (with calls), The Lancers, Waltz Lancers, Saratoga Lancers, The Caledonians, Waltz Caledonians, The Cally Polka Quadrille, Prince Imperial Quadrille, National Guard Quadrille; Contra Dances: Virginia Reel; Round Dances: Waltz, Galop, Polka, Three-Slide Polka, Heel-and-Toe Polka (Bohemienne), Military Schottische, Caprice Waltz, Christmas Polka, Highland Schottische, The Deux-Temps (Two-Step), The Yorke (3/4 evolution from Polka Mazourka), The Polka Mazourka; The Minuet, The Quadrille Minuet. Wilson's roster illustrates the late-1890s expansion of the round-dance vocabulary toward 'novelty' couple dances (Yorke, Caprice, Christmas Polka, Two-Step), and the preservation of the Minuet tradition for ceremonial / instructional use as the Five Positions are taught. Bridges between Sause 1879 and Wirth 1902 / Dodworth 1900 / Castle 1914 in the pre-modern American ballroom corpus. (1899). Imported from local collection.