01231cam a22002651 4500 ca 05001740 DLC 20260227111041.0 cr ||||||||||| 781018s1893 mau 000 0 eng ca 05001740 DLC DLC DLC GV1767 .F87 French, J. A., ed. The prompter's hand book. Ed. by J. A. French. Boston, O. Ditson Co., c1893. 88 p. 16 cm. Similar to other prompter's books published during the last half of the nineteenth century, French gives instructions for calling the figures of quadrilles including examples of how the calls correlate to the music. The book also covers the calling of contra dances (progressive figure dances performed by a column of men facing a column of women). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. Country dancing Handbooks, manuals, etc. Quadrille (Dance) Handbooks, manuals, etc. Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals. Prompting Quadrilles. musdi 079 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.079 s 13343 13343