Howe’s Complete Ball-Room Hand Book by Elias Howe is a historical dance reference identified in the supplied catalogue with the year 1859. Its description records more than 300 dances, together with figure explanations and calls for the different changes. Illustrations and additional reference material accompany the dancing content.
The calls are part of the book’s historical dance context: they relate to changes within the figures and programmes described. Readers interested in earlier ballroom practice can use the handbook to study how dancing was explained in a written reference of that period. Its language and presentation belong to that context, rather than to a modern Standard or Latin competition syllabus.
The product’s value is the preservation of a substantial historical dance document. It can be useful for background reading, dance-history study and examining the terminology associated with older figure descriptions. The supplied source does not include the entire named sequence of dances, so no modern reconstruction or substituted edition’s chapter list is added here.
The original catalogue lists an English-language, 118-page publication and credits Hubbard W. Swett. A historical library record also identifies a 118-page 1859 edition of the work. This PDF Ebook listing preserves the supplied publication details and the stated dance, illustration and reference coverage, without claiming a newly filmed demonstration or contemporary teaching programme.
Book Contents
- More than 300 dances and their choreography
- Explanations of figures
- Calls for the different changes
- Historical illustrations
- Additional contemporary reference material
Coverage overview based on the supplied description; a numbered chapter inventory was not supplied.
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