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Kasia & Basia: Mazourkas Favorites exécutées au Cours de Mr Cellarius, précédées de la Théorie de cette Danse (Chlédowski, Paris, c.1846)
Publisher: L. Chlédowski (composer) / J. Meissonnier, 22 rue d'Italie, Paris (undated; c.1846 per internal evidence — Mr Cellarius's Course established mid-1840s, pre-dates his 1847 Traité "La Danse des Salons" / LOC-1847-CELLARIUS by ~1 year). Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/Mazourkas_Favorites.txt — ~34 lines OCR). Sheet-music imprint with interleaved prose description "précédées de la Théorie de cette Danse": piano compositions "Kasia & Basia" (2-hand and 4-hand versions) by Chlédowski bound together with theory + three Mazourka Quadrille figures as taught at Cellarius's Paris course. EARLIEST PRE-1847 ATTESTATION of Cellarius's own-course Mazourka Quadrille — fills the gap between POWERS-1844-LABORDE-MAZURKA (Album à la Mode, Paris 1844) and LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS (Paris Traités). PAS DE LA MAZOURKA: "s'exécute sur une mesure à 3 tems" — at tem 1 the dancer glisse LF and lifts RF in arrière; at tem 3 he saute on RF; at tem 1 of the next bar he se lance. At the end of each promenade/figure the dancer marks beat 2 strongly (the "2e tems fort" signature accent of the Mazourka). STRUCTURE: 4 couples placed as in a contredanse; initial clasp of hands from gauche to droite and back, each couple separates and does a tour sur place (4 bars). Then three named Figures. Cellarius-course attribution places this squarely in the Paris-Opéra/Almack's Mazourka-Mania pedagogical lineage (cf. POWERS-1844-LABORDE-MAZURKA's Laborde-Coralli-Elie codification). Has_Step_Detail=Partial (explicit bar-counts and 3-tems foot-direction notation; no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall — pre-Silvester).Year: 1846Family: powers-c1846-chledowski-mazCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by L. Chlédowski (composer) / J. Meissonnier, 22 rue d'Italie, Paris (undated; c.1846 per internal evidence — Mr Cellarius's Course established mid-1840s, pre-dates his 1847 Traité "La Danse des Salons" / LOC-1847-CELLARIUS by ~1 year). Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/ABBYY TXT/Mazourkas_Favorites.txt — ~34 lines OCR). Sheet-music imprint with interleaved prose description "précédées de la Théorie de cette Danse": piano compositions "Kasia & Basia" (2-hand and 4-hand versions) by Chlédowski bound together with theory + three Mazourka Quadrille figures as taught at Cellarius's Paris course. EARLIEST PRE-1847 ATTESTATION of Cellarius's own-course Mazourka Quadrille — fills the gap between POWERS-1844-LABORDE-MAZURKA (Album à la Mode, Paris 1844) and LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS (Paris Traités). PAS DE LA MAZOURKA: "s'exécute sur une mesure à 3 tems" — at tem 1 the dancer glisse LF and lifts RF in arrière; at tem 3 he saute on RF; at tem 1 of the next bar he se lance. At the end of each promenade/figure the dancer marks beat 2 strongly (the "2e tems fort" signature accent of the Mazourka). STRUCTURE: 4 couples placed as in a contredanse; initial clasp of hands from gauche to droite and back, each couple separates and does a tour sur place (4 bars). Then three named Figures. Cellarius-course attribution places this squarely in the Paris-Opéra/Almack's Mazourka-Mania pedagogical lineage (cf. POWERS-1844-LABORDE-MAZURKA's Laborde-Coralli-Elie codification). Has_Step_Detail=Partial (explicit bar-counts and 3-tems foot-direction notation; no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall — pre-Silvester). (1846). Imported from local collection.