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Thread #61757   Message #1001850
Posted By: Jim Dixon
14-Aug-03 - 09:22 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Put Your Little Foot / Varsouvienne
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIDI Add: 'Put Your Little Foot'
If you search for "Varsovienne" at The Library of Congress American Memory Collection you will find 10 items, but I think they're all piano music, without lyrics. There are some intriguing titles, like

Brookes on modern dancing, containing a full description of all dances, as practised in the ball room and at private parties, together with an essay on etiquette. By L. de G. Brookes, New York: 1867. It includes this comment: "The Varsovienne was originated by an Italian, in 1850, who called it La Versuvianna in honor of Mount Vesuvius."

Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.

The art of dancing, historically illustrated. To which is added a few hints on etiquette; also, the figures, music, and necessary instruction for the performance of the most modern and approved dances. By Edward Ferrero; New York, The author, 1859.