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A Complete Practical Guide to the Art of Dancing (Hillgrove, 1867)
Publisher: Thomas Hillgrove / Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, New York, 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by Thomas Hillgrove, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Source: archive.org identifier completepractica00hill (Brigham Young University Library copy). Completes the Hillgrove edition lineage in corpus (after 1857/1858/1863 editions). Six-part structure: (I) Dancing and its happy influences / Toilet / Introductions / Hints / Deportment / Ball-room / Private Balls / Supper Room; (II) Private Dancing / Rudiments / Positions / Bow / Courtesy / Passing Bow / Positions for Fancy Dancing / Exercises for Feet and Legs; (III) Plain Quadrille (Pantalon–Finale) + Promiscuous Figures (Hands all Round, R&L all Round, Final, Basket, Cheat & Jig, March, Gavot, Minuet, Star, Balance to Right, Moulinet, Allemand, Holubiec, Dos-a-Dos) + Waltz Quadrille; (IV) Lancers, Caledonians, Prince Imperial, Continentals, Hillgrove's Favorite Quadrilles, March Quadrille, Social Quadrille Nos. 1-3, Spanish Dance; (V) Round Dances: Advice to Waltzers, Position, Polka, Schottisch, Gallop, Deux Temps, Esmeralda, Danish Dance, Union Dance, Polka Redowa, Varsovienne, Polka Mazourka, Plain Waltz, Redowa, Hop Waltz, Five-Step Waltz, Gorlitza, Sicilienne, Zulma L'Orientale, La Koska, La Carlowitzka, La Zingerilla, La Czarine; (VI) Fancy Quadrilles: The Quadrille, National Guard, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Union, Polka No. 1, Polka No. 2, London Polka, Horse Guards, Empire. The 1867 Hillgrove represents the mature post-Civil-War NYC social-dance repertoire — immediately preceding the Dodworth 1873 / De Garmo 1875 canon.Year: 1867Family: hillgroveCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Thomas Hillgrove / Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, New York, 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by Thomas Hillgrove, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Source: archive.org identifier completepractica00hill (Brigham Young University Library copy). Completes the Hillgrove edition lineage in corpus (after 1857/1858/1863 editions). Six-part structure: (I) Dancing and its happy influences / Toilet / Introductions / Hints / Deportment / Ball-room / Private Balls / Supper Room; (II) Private Dancing / Rudiments / Positions / Bow / Courtesy / Passing Bow / Positions for Fancy Dancing / Exercises for Feet and Legs; (III) Plain Quadrille (Pantalon–Finale) + Promiscuous Figures (Hands all Round, R&L all Round, Final, Basket, Cheat & Jig, March, Gavot, Minuet, Star, Balance to Right, Moulinet, Allemand, Holubiec, Dos-a-Dos) + Waltz Quadrille; (IV) Lancers, Caledonians, Prince Imperial, Continentals, Hillgrove's Favorite Quadrilles, March Quadrille, Social Quadrille Nos. 1-3, Spanish Dance; (V) Round Dances: Advice to Waltzers, Position, Polka, Schottisch, Gallop, Deux Temps, Esmeralda, Danish Dance, Union Dance, Polka Redowa, Varsovienne, Polka Mazourka, Plain Waltz, Redowa, Hop Waltz, Five-Step Waltz, Gorlitza, Sicilienne, Zulma L'Orientale, La Koska, La Carlowitzka, La Zingerilla, La Czarine; (VI) Fancy Quadrilles: The Quadrille, National Guard, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Union, Polka No. 1, Polka No. 2, London Polka, Horse Guards, Empire. The 1867 Hillgrove represents the mature post-Civil-War NYC social-dance repertoire — immediately preceding the Dodworth 1873 / De Garmo 1875 canon. (1867). Imported from local collection.