TY - BOOK AU - Hilton,Wendy AU - Hilton,Wendy TI - Dance and music of court and theater: selected writings of Wendy Hilton T2 - Dance & music series SN - 094519398X AV - GV1649. H54 1997 U1 - 793.31944 PY - 1997/// CY - Stuyvesant, NY PB - Pendragon Press KW - Dance KW - France KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Music KW - Labanotation N1 - 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 ER -