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Book/Printed Material Manuel du cotillon Cotillon, manuel de la danse

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About this Item

Title

  • Manuel du cotillon

Other Title

  • Cotillon, manuel de la danse

Summary

  • This late nineteenth-century manual is devoted to description of the popular parlor game, the German (also known as the cotillon). Every page of the manual has an advertisement for Au Paradis des Enfants in Paris, a shop that sold party accessories for the cotillon, including tambourines for the leader, ball cards, hair ornaments, decorations, roulette wheels, and paper lanterns.

Names

  • Clément, Eugène

Created / Published

  • Paris, Ouachée [between 1890 and 1900]

Headings

  • -  German (Dance)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  Folded broadside mounted on back cover: Polka, mazurke, schotisch et valse. Théories réunies et publiées par Eugéne Clément ... Paris, L'auteur [n.d.] illus. 44 1/2 x 40 cm.

Medium

  • 122 p. illus., col. plates. 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1757 .M3

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 43030217

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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The accompanying videos were produced by the Library of Congress. Note Video Performers for additional credits for video performers.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Clément, Eugène. Manuel Du Cotillon. [Paris, ouachée between 1890 and 1900, 1890] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/43030217/.

APA citation style:

Clément, E. (1890) Manuel Du Cotillon. [Paris, ouachée between 1890 and 1900] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/43030217/.

MLA citation style:

Clément, Eugène. Manuel Du Cotillon. [Paris, ouachée between 1890 and 1900, 1890] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/43030217/>.