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The Scholar's Companion (Fraisier, Boston 1796)
Publisher: Boston: D. Bowen at the Columbian Museum Press for the Author. M. J. C. Fraisier 1796. Internet Archive scan: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1796-Fraisier-Scholars_Companion_(Arc).txt. The Scholar's Companion, containing a Choice Collection of Cotillons & Country-Dances (M. J. C. Fraisier; Boston: D. Bowen at the Columbian Museum Press, 1796). EARLIEST BOSTON AMERICAN COTILLON+COUNTRY-DANCE imprint in LOD corpus. 47 numbered dances mixing French-derived cotillons (L'Allemande, La Vaudreuil, La Demoiselle, La Promenade, La Piedmontoise, Les..., La Belle, La Teodore) with patriotic American country-dances (Washington's Resign, Rhode-Island, Lady..., Reading...) and English-import country-dances (Love in a Village, Princess of..., Sweet..., Wilke's...). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1796-Fraisier-Scholars_Companion_(Arc).txt (13kB OCR; long-s present). Has_Step_Detail=No -- figure-prose only with crofs hands / lead down / caft off / fet to / right and left / hands round vocabulary; no foot-position / rise-fall / CBM. HISTORIC POSITION: bridges Willcox 1793 (LOC-1793-WILLCOX, the earliest American imprint) and Trumbull 1798 (LOC-1798-TRUMBULL Norwich CT) in the post-Revolution American cotillon-+-country-dance publishing window 1793-1798. Boston imprint at the Columbian Museum Press (Daniel Bowen, proprietor of the Columbian Museum waxworks-and-printing-house, Tremont St. Boston) places this in the Federalist-era Boston cultural-economy. Author M. J. C. Fraisier (likely a French émigré dancing-master in Federalist-era Boston) consistent with the LA-titled French cotillons. The patriotic Washington's Resign references the December 1783 Annapolis resignation as Commander-in-Chief, 13y forward.Year: 1796Family: fraisierCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Boston: D. Bowen at the Columbian Museum Press for the Author. M. J. C. Fraisier 1796. Internet Archive scan: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1796-Fraisier-Scholars_Companion_(Arc).txt. The Scholar's Companion, containing a Choice Collection of Cotillons & Country-Dances (M. J. C. Fraisier; Boston: D. Bowen at the Columbian Museum Press, 1796). EARLIEST BOSTON AMERICAN COTILLON+COUNTRY-DANCE imprint in LOD corpus. 47 numbered dances mixing French-derived cotillons (L'Allemande, La Vaudreuil, La Demoiselle, La Promenade, La Piedmontoise, Les..., La Belle, La Teodore) with patriotic American country-dances (Washington's Resign, Rhode-Island, Lady..., Reading...) and English-import country-dances (Love in a Village, Princess of..., Sweet..., Wilke's...). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1796-Fraisier-Scholars_Companion_(Arc).txt (13kB OCR; long-s present). Has_Step_Detail=No -- figure-prose only with crofs hands / lead down / caft off / fet to / right and left / hands round vocabulary; no foot-position / rise-fall / CBM. HISTORIC POSITION: bridges Willcox 1793 (LOC-1793-WILLCOX, the earliest American imprint) and Trumbull 1798 (LOC-1798-TRUMBULL Norwich CT) in the post-Revolution American cotillon-+-country-dance publishing window 1793-1798. Boston imprint at the Columbian Museum Press (Daniel Bowen, proprietor of the Columbian Museum waxworks-and-printing-house, Tremont St. Boston) places this in the Federalist-era Boston cultural-economy. Author M. J. C. Fraisier (likely a French émigré dancing-master in Federalist-era Boston) consistent with the LA-titled French cotillons. The patriotic Washington's Resign references the December 1783 Annapolis resignation as Commander-in-Chief, 13y forward. (1796). Imported from local collection.