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Ballet in western culture : a history of its origins and evolution / Carol Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0205274390
  • 9780205274390
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.809
LOC classification:
  • GV1787. L3197 1999
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- Pt. 1. From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance -- 1. Origins of Dance -- 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- Pt. 2. Emergence of Ballet as an Art form: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century -- 4. Baroque Ballet -- 5. The Advancement of Professional Ballet -- 6. Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet -- 7. The Foundations of Romantic Ballet -- 8. The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet -- 9. The Evolution of Ballet in Russia -- 10. Imperial Russian Ballet -- Pt. 3. The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- 11. Sergei Diaghilev and the New Dance -- 12. The Ballets Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism -- 13. Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- 14. The Development of Ballet in the United States -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Ballets -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Pt. 1. From Folk Expression to Seventeenth-Century Court Dance -- 1. Origins of Dance -- 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy -- 3. The Ballet de Cour in France -- Pt. 2. Emergence of Ballet as an Art form: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century -- 4. Baroque Ballet -- 5. The Advancement of Professional Ballet -- 6. Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet -- 7. The Foundations of Romantic Ballet -- 8. The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet -- 9. The Evolution of Ballet in Russia -- 10. Imperial Russian Ballet -- Pt. 3. The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- 11. Sergei Diaghilev and the New Dance -- 12. The Ballets Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism -- 13. Ballet in the Twentieth Century -- 14. The Development of Ballet in the United States -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Ballets -- Index.

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