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Dance and music of court and theater : selected writings of Wendy Hilton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dance and music series ; no. 10.Publisher: Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, c1997Description: xv, 455 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 094519398X
Contained works:
  • Hilton, Wendy. Dance of court & theater
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.31944
LOC classification:
  • GV1649. H54 1997
Contents:
Preface to the Selected Writings -- Bk. 1. A Complete facsimile of the 1981 edition, Dance of Court & Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725 -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to Book One -- Pt. 1. The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater -- Ch. 1. Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 2. Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliere, and Beauchamp; Pecour and Campra -- Ch. 3. Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 4. The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson -- Pt. 2. An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation -- Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources -- Ch. 5. A Survey of the Components of the Dance -- Ch. 6. The Beauchamp-Feuillet System of Choregraphie: The Representation of the Dancing Area, Spatial Figures, the Music in Dance Scores, Symbols for Foot Positions and Steps, Signs -- Ch. 7. The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation -- Ch. 8. The Notation of Meter in Choregraphie -- Ch. 9. The Steps and Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter -- Ch. 10. The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations -- Ch. 11. Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression -- Ch. 12. Technique of Etiquette -- Ch. 13. The Menuet According to Rameau -- App. 1. Labanotation Examples -- App. 2: Exercises -- App. 3. Chronology of Political Events -- Bibliography -- Index to Book I -- Bk. 2. Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance a deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation -- Pt. 1. A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante - Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional formulations -- Pt. 2. Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey -- Pt. 3. Aimable Vainqueur or The Louvre: Louis Pecour's ballroom danse a deux with the music by Andre Campra from Hesione in four-part score -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index to Book Two.
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Includes facsim. reprint of: Dance of court & theater : the French noble style, 1690-1725. c1981.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface to the Selected Writings -- Bk. 1. A Complete facsimile of the 1981 edition, Dance of Court & Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725 -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to Book One -- Pt. 1. The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater -- Ch. 1. Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 2. Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliere, and Beauchamp; Pecour and Campra -- Ch. 3. Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 4. The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson -- Pt. 2. An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation -- Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources -- Ch. 5. A Survey of the Components of the Dance -- Ch. 6. The Beauchamp-Feuillet System of Choregraphie: The Representation of the Dancing Area, Spatial Figures, the Music in Dance Scores, Symbols for Foot Positions and Steps, Signs -- Ch. 7. The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation -- Ch. 8. The Notation of Meter in Choregraphie -- Ch. 9. The Steps and Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter -- Ch. 10. The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations -- Ch. 11. Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression -- Ch. 12. Technique of Etiquette -- Ch. 13. The Menuet According to Rameau -- App. 1. Labanotation Examples -- App. 2: Exercises -- App. 3. Chronology of Political Events -- Bibliography -- Index to Book I -- Bk. 2. Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance a deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation -- Pt. 1. A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante - Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional formulations -- Pt. 2. Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey -- Pt. 3. Aimable Vainqueur or The Louvre: Louis Pecour's ballroom danse a deux with the music by Andre Campra from Hesione in four-part score -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index to Book Two.

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