Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to ballet
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge companions to music |
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| Carrier Form: | xli, 353 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521832212 (hbk.) 0521832217 (hbk.) 9780521539869 (pbk.) 0521539862 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | J732 |
| CLC: |
J732.5-09 J709 |
| Call Number: | J709/C178 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile -- Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera -- English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer -- The baroque body / Mark Franko -- Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann -- The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / Sandra Noll Hammond -- The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / Tim Blanning -- Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / Judith Chazin-Benahum -- The French Revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann -- Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / Sarah Davis Cordova -- Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / Anne Middleboe Christensen -- The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / Marian E. Smith -- Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / Lynn Garafola -- Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / Thérèse Hurley -- The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht -- The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant -- The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / Erik Näslund -- The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl -- George Balanchine / Matilde Butkas -- Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / Juliet Bellow -- The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / Jennifer Fisher -- From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / Zheng Yangwen -- Giselle in a Cuban accent / Lester Tome -- European ballet in the age of ideologies / Marion Kant. |