Dance and music of court and theater : selected writings of Wendy Hilton.
- xv, 455 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Dance & music series ; no. 10. .
- Dance and music series ; no. 10. .
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 -- A Complete facsimile of the 1981 edition, Dance of Court & Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725 -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to Book One -- The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater -- Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715 -- Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliere, and Beauchamp; Pecour and Campra -- Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715 -- The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson -- An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation -- Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources -- A Survey of the Components of the Dance -- 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 -- The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation -- The Notation of Meter in Choregraphie -- The Steps and Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter -- The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations -- Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression -- Technique of Etiquette -- The Menuet According to Rameau -- Labanotation Examples -- App. 2: Exercises -- Chronology of Political Events -- Bibliography -- Index to Book I -- Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance a deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation -- A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante - Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional formulations -- Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey -- 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. Bk. 1. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 2. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. App. 1. App. 3. Bk. 2. Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3.