TY  - BOOK
AU  - French,J.A.
TI  - The prompter's hand book
AV  - GV1767 .F87
PY  - 1893///
CY  - Boston
PB  - O. Ditson Co.
KW  - Country dancing
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Quadrille (Dance)
KW  - Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals
KW  - Prompting Quadrilles
N1  - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text
N2  - 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)
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.079
ER  -