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The Gentlemen & Lady's Companion (Trumbull, Norwich CT 1798)
Publisher: Norwich, Connecticut: Printed by J. Trumbull. 1798. Internet Archive scan: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1798-Trumbull-Gentleman_(Arc).txt. The Gentlemen & Lady's Companion; Containing the Newest Cotillions and Country Dances; To Which Is Added, Instances of Ill Manners, To Be Carefully Avoided by Youth of Both Sexes (Norwich, Connecticut: Printed by J. Trumbull, 1798). 87 numbered dances: 9 cotillions (Pt I, French-imported vocabulary: Ca Ira, The Coquet, The Convention, La Fayette Forever, German Spa, Miss Chandler's Cotillion, Commencement, Duke of York's Cotillion, The Girl I Left Behind Me) followed by 78 country dances (Pt II: White Cockade, Fisher's Hornpipe, Sea Flower, York Fusiliers, Boston Assembly, Money Musk, Soldier's Joy, Flowers of Edinburgh, Patrick's Day, Successful Campaign, Faithful Shepherd, Rural Felicity, etc.). Title-page Hebrew-Bible epigraph 'And David danced before the Lord with all his might' (2 Sam 6:14) frames the work in Federalist-Protestant religious-pro-dance polemic 21y pre-LOC-1819-IDE. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1798-Trumbull-Gentleman_(Arc).txt (18kB OCR; long-s present). Has_Step_Detail=No -- figure-prose only; balance / chaffe / cross hands / right and left / allemande / set vocabulary; no per-position footwork. HISTORIC POSITION: completes the post-Revolution American cotillon+country-dance publishing trilogy LOC-1793-WILLCOX (Greenfield MA) -> LOC-1796-FRAISIER (Boston) -> LOC-1798-TRUMBULL (Norwich CT). Norwich CT imprint extends Federalist-era American dance publishing south from Boston into Connecticut. Patriotic dance-titles (La Fayette Forever, Washington's Reel, Baron Steuben's Favourite, President, Liberty, The General Toast, Belles of New-York, Belles of Norwich, Belles of Middletown) document the Federalist-era naming-convention pattern. 100% Rosetta value confirmed for ~80% of titles (matches existing American/English country-dance canonicals from Willcox 1793, Wilson, Thompson Compleat). J. Trumbull printer (cousin of artist John Trumbull and Lt. Gov. Jonathan Trumbull Jr.) Norwich-CT Federalist-Whig publishing house.Year: 1798Family: trumbullCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Norwich, Connecticut: Printed by J. Trumbull. 1798. Internet Archive scan: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1798-Trumbull-Gentleman_(Arc).txt. The Gentlemen & Lady's Companion; Containing the Newest Cotillions and Country Dances; To Which Is Added, Instances of Ill Manners, To Be Carefully Avoided by Youth of Both Sexes (Norwich, Connecticut: Printed by J. Trumbull, 1798). 87 numbered dances: 9 cotillions (Pt I, French-imported vocabulary: Ca Ira, The Coquet, The Convention, La Fayette Forever, German Spa, Miss Chandler's Cotillion, Commencement, Duke of York's Cotillion, The Girl I Left Behind Me) followed by 78 country dances (Pt II: White Cockade, Fisher's Hornpipe, Sea Flower, York Fusiliers, Boston Assembly, Money Musk, Soldier's Joy, Flowers of Edinburgh, Patrick's Day, Successful Campaign, Faithful Shepherd, Rural Felicity, etc.). Title-page Hebrew-Bible epigraph 'And David danced before the Lord with all his might' (2 Sam 6:14) frames the work in Federalist-Protestant religious-pro-dance polemic 21y pre-LOC-1819-IDE. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/TXT/1798-Trumbull-Gentleman_(Arc).txt (18kB OCR; long-s present). Has_Step_Detail=No -- figure-prose only; balance / chaffe / cross hands / right and left / allemande / set vocabulary; no per-position footwork. HISTORIC POSITION: completes the post-Revolution American cotillon+country-dance publishing trilogy LOC-1793-WILLCOX (Greenfield MA) -> LOC-1796-FRAISIER (Boston) -> LOC-1798-TRUMBULL (Norwich CT). Norwich CT imprint extends Federalist-era American dance publishing south from Boston into Connecticut. Patriotic dance-titles (La Fayette Forever, Washington's Reel, Baron Steuben's Favourite, President, Liberty, The General Toast, Belles of New-York, Belles of Norwich, Belles of Middletown) document the Federalist-era naming-convention pattern. 100% Rosetta value confirmed for ~80% of titles (matches existing American/English country-dance canonicals from Willcox 1793, Wilson, Thompson Compleat). J. Trumbull printer (cousin of artist John Trumbull and Lt. Gov. Jonathan Trumbull Jr.) Norwich-CT Federalist-Whig publishing house. (1798). Imported from local collection.