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Instructions for Dancing the Cellarius Valse (Musical Bouquet, c.1860)
Publisher: Anonymous instruction sheet bound to W. H. Montgomery's Musical Bouquet sheet-music series; published by The Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn, London. Dated c.1860 based on the bibliographic catalogue at the foot of the sheet which advertises Verdi's La Traviata (1853) / Il Trovatore (1853) / Rigoletto (1851) piano transcriptions among Montgomery's 'Wreaths in the Musical Bouquet' series — placing the sheet definitively after 1853, with Musical Bouquet's active publication period c.1845-1873. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/Cellarius_Waltz.txt — 11 lines OCR; the Part 3 description is truncated at the line break — Parts 1 and 2 are explicitly described). Three named parts of the Cellarius Valse: Part 1 (Spring-Slide-Spring 6-step circle); Part 2 (Heel-Strike, Side-Slide with Knee-Bend, Hop); Part 3 (truncated in OCR — described only as one of three parts). Ladies' description; Gentlemen's step is 'precisely the same' with feet reversed (left for right, right for left). Pamphlet credits 'M. Cellarius of Paris' as the originator and notes that the Cellarius Valse is derived from the Mazourka Quadrille — the same steps but adapted from an 8-person quadrille to a 2-person valse 'preserving the original step.' First explicit Part-by-Part sub-decomposition of the Cellarius Valse in the corpus; the Cellarius 1847 / 1849 originals (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS) and the Howe 1886 H-GAB-MAZ-F0077 description mention three parts but do not provide separate Part-canonicals. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (explicit foot direction + count notation for Parts 1 and 2; pre-Cellarius-codification mid-Victorian English ballroom vocabulary).Year: 1860Family: powers-c1860-musboq-cellariusCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anonymous instruction sheet bound to W. H. Montgomery's Musical Bouquet sheet-music series; published by The Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn, London. Dated c.1860 based on the bibliographic catalogue at the foot of the sheet which advertises Verdi's La Traviata (1853) / Il Trovatore (1853) / Rigoletto (1851) piano transcriptions among Montgomery's 'Wreaths in the Musical Bouquet' series — placing the sheet definitively after 1853, with Musical Bouquet's active publication period c.1845-1873. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/Cellarius_Waltz.txt — 11 lines OCR; the Part 3 description is truncated at the line break — Parts 1 and 2 are explicitly described). Three named parts of the Cellarius Valse: Part 1 (Spring-Slide-Spring 6-step circle); Part 2 (Heel-Strike, Side-Slide with Knee-Bend, Hop); Part 3 (truncated in OCR — described only as one of three parts). Ladies' description; Gentlemen's step is 'precisely the same' with feet reversed (left for right, right for left). Pamphlet credits 'M. Cellarius of Paris' as the originator and notes that the Cellarius Valse is derived from the Mazourka Quadrille — the same steps but adapted from an 8-person quadrille to a 2-person valse 'preserving the original step.' First explicit Part-by-Part sub-decomposition of the Cellarius Valse in the corpus; the Cellarius 1847 / 1849 originals (LOC-1847-CELLARIUS / LOC-1849-CELLARIUS) and the Howe 1886 H-GAB-MAZ-F0077 description mention three parts but do not provide separate Part-canonicals. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (explicit foot direction + count notation for Parts 1 and 2; pre-Cellarius-codification mid-Victorian English ballroom vocabulary). (1860). Imported from local collection.