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The Select Quadrille Preceptor for 1838 — containing Paine's Sets, Lancers, Caledonians, Waltz Cotillon, Mescolance, Royal Williams, Royal Devonshire Mazurkas, La Gallopade, Gallopade Quadrille, and Quadrille Country Dances. 'As danced at Almack's.' (T. Lowe, Professor of Dancing; 4th Edition; Pashen, Music Seller, 139 Aldersgate Street, London, 1838)
Publisher: T. Lowe, Professor of Dancing / I. Pashen, Engraver, Printer and Music Seller, 139 Aldersgate Street (Near the New Post Office), London. Fourth Edition, 1838. Price One Shilling. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1838_Lowe_Select_Quadrille.txt — 391 lines OCR). Pre-Victorian English ballroom compendium (published the year after Queen Victoria's 1837 accession and six years before Coulon 1844); marketed as 'As danced at Almack's'. TOC: Preliminary Directions; Explanation of French Terms; Paine's First/Second/Third/Fourth Sets (Pantalon / L'Été / La Poule / Trenise / La Pastorale / La Finale, 6/6/6/5 figures); Waltz Cotillon; Lancers First Set 'By Duval of Dublin' (5 unnamed figures) + Second Set 'Usually known as Hart's Set' (La Rose / La Lodoiska / La Dorset / L'Étoile / Les Lanciers — the 5-named-figure standard Lancers); Caledonians First + Second Sets (5+5 figures); Mescolance; Royal Williams (5 figures); Royal Devonshire Mazurkas (3 figures); Explanation and Figures of La Gallopade (4 figures, with fn 'generally composed of three figures, but in some parties the fourth is introduced'); Gallopade Quadrille (4 figures); Quadrille Country Dances (8 progressive figures). Fills the 1836-1840 English-ballroom gap between Hommage à Taglioni 1836 and the 1840s Victorian court-ballroom codifications (Mitchell c.1842 / Coulon 1844 / Cellarius 1847). First corpus appearance of the 'Duval of Dublin' Lancers attribution, the Royal Williams quadrille novelty, and the Mescolance informal set-dance. Provides a rare early-Victorian Almack's-era English-ballroom snapshot showing that the 6-figure Paine's-First-Set / 6-figure Paine's-Second-Set-through-Fourth-Set structure and the 5-named-figure Hart's Lancers were already pan-London-standard by 1838. Has_Step_Detail = Partial.Year: 1838Family: lowe-selectCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by T. Lowe, Professor of Dancing / I. Pashen, Engraver, Printer and Music Seller, 139 Aldersgate Street (Near the New Post Office), London. Fourth Edition, 1838. Price One Shilling. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1838_Lowe_Select_Quadrille.txt — 391 lines OCR). Pre-Victorian English ballroom compendium (published the year after Queen Victoria's 1837 accession and six years before Coulon 1844); marketed as 'As danced at Almack's'. TOC: Preliminary Directions; Explanation of French Terms; Paine's First/Second/Third/Fourth Sets (Pantalon / L'Été / La Poule / Trenise / La Pastorale / La Finale, 6/6/6/5 figures); Waltz Cotillon; Lancers First Set 'By Duval of Dublin' (5 unnamed figures) + Second Set 'Usually known as Hart's Set' (La Rose / La Lodoiska / La Dorset / L'Étoile / Les Lanciers — the 5-named-figure standard Lancers); Caledonians First + Second Sets (5+5 figures); Mescolance; Royal Williams (5 figures); Royal Devonshire Mazurkas (3 figures); Explanation and Figures of La Gallopade (4 figures, with fn 'generally composed of three figures, but in some parties the fourth is introduced'); Gallopade Quadrille (4 figures); Quadrille Country Dances (8 progressive figures). Fills the 1836-1840 English-ballroom gap between Hommage à Taglioni 1836 and the 1840s Victorian court-ballroom codifications (Mitchell c.1842 / Coulon 1844 / Cellarius 1847). First corpus appearance of the 'Duval of Dublin' Lancers attribution, the Royal Williams quadrille novelty, and the Mescolance informal set-dance. Provides a rare early-Victorian Almack's-era English-ballroom snapshot showing that the 6-figure Paine's-First-Set / 6-figure Paine's-Second-Set-through-Fourth-Set structure and the 5-named-figure Hart's Lancers were already pan-London-standard by 1838. Has_Step_Detail = Partial. (1838). Imported from local collection.