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The cachucha sung by Madame Vestris

Title
The cachucha [graphic] : sung by Madame Vestris / arranged by S. Nelson.
Publication
Philadelphia : Fiot, Meignen & Co., [183-?]

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Additional Authors
  • Nelson, S. (Sydney), 1800-1862.
  • Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856.
Description
1 print : lithograph, b&w; 36 x 28 cm. +
Summary
Sheet music cover illustration depicting a man and a woman in Spanish costume, dancing in an outdoor setting. Both play castanets. The woman's dress, with its deep flounces of dark-colored lace, is similar to the costume worn by ballerina Fanny Elssler in her signature dance, the cachucha from Jean Coralli's ballet Le diable boiteux (1836).
Alternative Title
Come, o come! Castanets are gaily sounding
Subject
Cachucha (Dance)
Genre/Form
  • Sheet music covers.
  • Lithographs.
Note
  • Caption title.
  • Lith. of Endicott.
  • Printed by Lehman & Duval.
Source (note)
  • Lillian Moore.
Biography (note)
  • Madame Vestris, whose full name was Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris, was an English-born actress and singer who owed her illustrious last name to her brief marriage to the dancer and ballet master Armand Vestris.
  • The cachucha, a Spanish dance in triple time, became the rage in Paris and London with Fanny Elssler's performance in Le diable boiteux. As a musical form, it has echoes in the song "Dance a cachucha" from W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's operetta The gondoliers (1889).
Call Number
*MGZFX Anon Cac 1
OCLC
825075517
Title
The cachucha [graphic] : sung by Madame Vestris / arranged by S. Nelson.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Fiot, Meignen & Co., [183-?]
Biography
Madame Vestris, whose full name was Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris, was an English-born actress and singer who owed her illustrious last name to her brief marriage to the dancer and ballet master Armand Vestris.
The cachucha, a Spanish dance in triple time, became the rage in Paris and London with Fanny Elssler's performance in Le diable boiteux. As a musical form, it has echoes in the song "Dance a cachucha" from W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's operetta The gondoliers (1889).
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Source
Gift; Lillian Moore.
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Local Subject
Spanish dancing -- Songs and music.
Added Author
Nelson, S. (Sydney), 1800-1862. Arranger
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856. Associated name
Moore, Lillian. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZFX Anon Cac 1
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