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Album a la Mode: La Mazourka (Laborde fils / Guerard, Paris 1844) - choregraphie de la Mazurka par Laborde, with the Laborde Charte codifying the French social Mazurka
Publisher: Aubert et Cie, Place de la Bourse 29, Paris. Music and lithographed plates by M. Guerard (lithographed in two tints by MM. Guerard, A*** and Provost); choregraphie by M. Laborde fils. Literary-historical essay 'La Mazourka' on the cultural history of the dance (Napoleon / David / Louis XIV minuet / cotillon / Carmagnole / quadrille / 1830 boleros / Fanny Ellsler cachucha / Taglioni). Publishes for the first time the Laborde 'Charte' (5-article constitution) codifying the French version of the Russian-Polish Mazurka after Laborde's 1843 tour of European capitals. Published 1844-1845. From the Richard Powers collection. Source file: DATA/POWERS/1844_Album_A_La_Mode_La_Mazourka.PDF with ABBYY TXT 1844_Album_A_La_Mode_La_Mazourka.txt (258 lines, ~41KB). Historical context: bridges the pre-polka (1830s) and post-polka (1844 polka-mania) eras; complements Coulon 1844 Ball-Room Polka (POWERS-1844-COULON-POLKA), Rock 1845 (POWERS-1845-ROCK), Cellarius 1847 (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS), and the broader mid-19c codification of mazurka figures. The Laborde Charte is the earliest codified French social-mazurka constitution we have in the corpus.Year: 1844Family: laborde-mazurkaCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Aubert et Cie, Place de la Bourse 29, Paris. Music and lithographed plates by M. Guerard (lithographed in two tints by MM. Guerard, A*** and Provost); choregraphie by M. Laborde fils. Literary-historical essay 'La Mazourka' on the cultural history of the dance (Napoleon / David / Louis XIV minuet / cotillon / Carmagnole / quadrille / 1830 boleros / Fanny Ellsler cachucha / Taglioni). Publishes for the first time the Laborde 'Charte' (5-article constitution) codifying the French version of the Russian-Polish Mazurka after Laborde's 1843 tour of European capitals. Published 1844-1845. From the Richard Powers collection. Source file: DATA/POWERS/1844_Album_A_La_Mode_La_Mazourka.PDF with ABBYY TXT 1844_Album_A_La_Mode_La_Mazourka.txt (258 lines, ~41KB). Historical context: bridges the pre-polka (1830s) and post-polka (1844 polka-mania) eras; complements Coulon 1844 Ball-Room Polka (POWERS-1844-COULON-POLKA), Rock 1845 (POWERS-1845-ROCK), Cellarius 1847 (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS), and the broader mid-19c codification of mazurka figures. The Laborde Charte is the earliest codified French social-mazurka constitution we have in the corpus. (1844). Imported from local collection.