Ball-Room Bijou, and Art of Dancing — Containing the Figures of the Polkas, Mazurkas, and Other Popular New Dances; with Rules for Polite Behavior (Charles Durang / Turner & Fisher, New York and Philadelphia, 1848)

Dance manual/reference by Charles Durang (author) / Turner & Fisher, 15 North Sixth St. Philadelphia and 74 Chatham Street New York, 1848. Copyright 1847, printed 1848. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/Durang_Ball-Room_Bijou.txt — 633 lines OCR). Abridged companion volume to Durang's Terpsichore; or, Ball-Room Guide (1847 / POWERS-1847-DURANG, 1856 / Durang 1856 canonicals F0065-F0084 et al.); Durang explicitly identifies the Bijou as a condensed extract of his Terpsichore for those lacking time for the full treatise. Contents: Rules for Polite Behavior (ball-room etiquette, deportment, dress, introductions); Private Dancing (five positions, arm carriage, bow/curtsey, battements, ronds-de-jambe); Polka Quadrilles (Glover's 5-figure set, as taught by Mr. Durang and Daughter: Pantalon / Eté / Poule / Trenis / Finale); Monterey Polka Quadrilles (5 military-themed figures to commemorate the Mexican-American War victories: Gen. Taylor / Gen. Worth / Gen. Twiggs / Capt. Bragg / Col. May, composed by C. Durang); Buena Vista Polka Quadrilles (5 figures to music by I. Hazzard, London figures); New York Polka (10 steps, as danced at Parker's Balls); A Polka Finale Quadrille (to Evergreen air); Durang's Grand Baden Polka (16-movement compound, for two or more couples, as taught by C. Durang and Daughter); Miscellaneous Polkas (Ravel Polka Quadrille by M. Keller / Durang's Soirees at Museum Ball Saloon Philadelphia, Evergreen Polka by Conner, Jinny Crack Corn Polka + New Jealousy figure, Monsieur Hazard's Polka 16-movement); Origin of the Mazurka Quadrilles; Mazurka Quadrilles as danced at Almack's London and taught by Mr. Durang and Daughter (5 figures: Grand Round / Tour sur place / Holubiec / Promenade, Grand Round / Moulinet / Chain Anglaise Double, The Graces, Le Boulanger, Finale — plus Kolo Polish Mazurka Set / Right and Left Polish Set / Third Figure with kneeling); Mazurka Quadrilles by Julien / Les Russes (Cellarius Valse adaptation as danced at Mr. Whale's Balls); La Gallopade + Gallopade Quadrille (20-figure set); The Polonaise; The Waltz (La Russe, La Sauteuse variants); Waltz Quadrilles First Set (3 figures) + Second Set (3 figures); La Valse Hongroise (Hungarian national waltz); The Reydowak (Bohemian waltz-parent of the Redowa); The New Redowa (Bohemian Valse, as taught by C. Durang and Daughter, first Parisian publication); Cellarius Waltz (5 figures, as taught by Durang — distinct from earlier LOC-1847-CELLARIUS French original and from Saunders 1845 English codification); Waltz Cotillion; Gallopade Quadrille Finale; Pas de Matelot / Sailor Hornpipe (22 numbered steps — old style). Bridges the 1847 Durang Terpsichore and 1856 Durang Ball-Room editions; distinct Rosetta value as the Philadelphia mid-1840s condensed ballroom guide capturing the original 1846-1848 polka-mania and the nascent Mazurka Quadrille and Cellarius Valse codifications in American pedagogical form. Has_Step_Detail=Partial (bar-count + figure prose notation; no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall — pre-Silvester mid-19th-c. American ballroom vocabulary). (1848). Imported from local collection.