Writings On Ballet And Music

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Writings On Ballet And Music

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Author : Fedor Lopukhov
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2002

Writings On Ballet And Music written by Fedor Lopukhov and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.

Although little-known in the West, Fedor Lopukhov was a leading figure in Russia's dance world for more than sixty years and an influence on many who became major figures in Western dance, such as George Balanchine. As a choreographer, he staged the first post-revolutionary productions of traditional ballets like Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty as well as avant-garde and experimental works, including Dance Symphony, Bolt, and a highly controversial version of The Nutcracker. This first publication in English of Lopukhov's theoretical writings will give readers a clear understanding of his seminal importance in dance history and illuminate his role in the development of dance as a nonnarrative, musically based form. These writings present the rationale behind Lopukhov's attempt to develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and expressive elements of dance and music. They also show his finely detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generations. This edition explains not only the making of his own controversial Dance Symphony but also the issues he saw at stake in productions of Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, and other key works by Petipa and Fokine. Lopukhov's writings argue the details of choreographic devices with an unusual degree of precision, and his comments on composers and the musical repertoire used by his predecessors and contemporaries are equally revealing. Stephanie Jordan's introduction deftly situates these writings within the context of Lopukhov's life and career and in relation to the theories, aesthetics, and practices of dance in the twentieth century.

Ballet Music

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Author : Matthew Naughtin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-07-17

Ballet Music written by Matthew Naughtin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Music categories.

Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s variation, pas d’action, apothéose—simply don’t fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even a familiar term like adagio means something quite different in the world of dance. Like any working professional, those conductors, composers, rehearsal pianists, instrumentalists and even music librarians working with professional ballet and dance companies must learn what dance professionals talk about when they talk about music. In Ballet Music: A Handbook Matthew Naughtin provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies, whether as a full-time staff member or as an independent contractor. In this comprehensive work, he addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the respective roles of the conductor, company pianist and music librarian and their necessary collaboration with choreographers and ballet masters, and examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on stage, from selection or existing music to commissioning original scores to staging the final production. Because ballet companies routinely revise the great ballets to fit the needs of their staff and stage, audience and orchestra, ballet repertoire is a tangled web for the uninitiated. At the core of Ballet Music: A Handbook lies an extensive listing of classic ballets in the standard repertoire, with information on their history, versions, revisions, instrumentation, score publishers and other sources for tracking down both the original music and subsequent musical additions and adaptations. Ballet Music: A Handbook is an invaluable resource for conductors, pianists and music librarians as well as any student, scholar or fan of the ballet interested in the complex machinery that works backstage before the curtain goes up.

The Victor Book Of Ballets And Ballet Music

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Author : Robert Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950

The Victor Book Of Ballets And Ballet Music written by Robert Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Ballets categories.

Starts with a brief history of ballet, with brief paragraphs on some of the trend-setting choreographers. Outlines the plots of over 120 ballets (arranged alphabetically by title) and identifies key musical motifs. Includes a "selective discography".

My First Ballet

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Author : Christelle Galloux
language : en
Publisher: Auzou
Release Date : 2017-10

My First Ballet written by Christelle Galloux and has been published by Auzou this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10 with Ballet categories.

Discover 8 of the world's greatest ballets!

Dance And Music Of Court And Theater

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Author : Wendy Hilton
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 1997

Dance And Music Of Court And Theater written by Wendy Hilton and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

This collection of selected writings of Ms. Hilton includes a complete facsimile of her 1981 book Dance of Court & Theater (no longer available) as well as two significant articles, and a notated triple-meter danse � deux by LouisP�cour. Book One (the facsimile) provides in-depth analysis of primary sources on dance of the baroque period.The main body of the text is devoted to mastery of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system,which includes the relationships of steps to music in such dance types as the menuet,gavotte, bourr�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.

Great Ballet Music

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Great Ballet Music written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.

Choreographic Music For The Dance

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Author : Verna Arvey
language : en
Publisher: Arvey Press
Release Date : 2007-03-01

Choreographic Music For The Dance written by Verna Arvey and has been published by Arvey Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.

Text extracted from opening pages of book: ( Choreographic MUSIC for the DANCE by VERJSTA ARVEY * Illustrated New York: E. P. BUTTON & COMPANY, INC.: ~ -: COPYRIGHT, I94-I; sy.-E. P. DUTTON & co., INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. FIRST EDITION To NORMA GOULD, in recognition of her service to all arts allied with the Dance FOREWORD * The art of the Dance is as yet recordless, as fleeting as the life of the artist who interprets it. Once Pavlowa's dancing was supreme artistry. Now it Is mere memory and many descriptive, written words; but the music to which she danced still lives. Mozart danced the Minuet faultlessly. His dancing has passed on with him but the Minuets he wrote remain to charm us with their exquisite perfection. Composers of all times have created a living body of musical literature for the Dance. For those who scorn the writing of such music, and deem it light and unworthy, let it be said that most great composers have been guilty of the crime. We now call their dances classics, simply because they wrote them. This book is therefore occupied equally with the classics of the past and of the future. Then, if music be the spine of Dance, write on, ye com posers great and small! The small will add to the luster of the great, and the great will re-create in their music the ephemeral Dance and its disappearing forms. TABLE OF CONTENTS * CHAPTER FACE I The Function of Music in Primitive Dance Ceremonials . . . . . 15 II Ancient Choreographic Music and its Survival 25 III Dance Music in the Middle Ages . . . 49 IV Folk Dance Music . . . . . . 60 V Formal French Ballet Music . ., . 78 VI Ballet Music in Early Operas . . . 96 VII Formal Italian Ballet Music . . ..112 VIII Formal Russian Ballet Music ., .123 IX Instrtimental Dance Suites . . . . 1,34 X Dance Movements in Symphonies . . . 144 XI Ballets in Later Operas ..... 156 XII Music Inspired by Dance . . . .181 XIII Idealized Dance Music . .... 192 XIV The Walte an d Its Creators . . . . 222 XV Igor Stravinsky . . . . . .239 XVI Other Russian Ballets . . . . .260 XVII The Influence of the Elements of Jazz on the World* s Dance Music .. . . . 273 XVIII The Ballets of John Alden Carpenter and William Grant Still 286 XIX Other American Ballets 301 XX Modern French Ballets, . ., .312 XXI Spanish, Italian, Latin-American Ballets . 332 IO TABLE OF CONTENTS CKAFTUt XXII Modern German Ballets XXIII English Ballets XXIV Miscellaneous Ballets .... '' XXV The Dance in Silence . . . . XXVI - Occasional Dance Accompaniments . XXVII The Simultaneous Creation of Dance Music ...... XXVIII Problems of the Dancer XXIX Problems of the Composer . XXX Appendices ...... A Explanatory Note .... B Bibliography ..... C Musical Examples .... D Ballet Terms E Miscellaneous Dance Music . Index and,345 355 363 369 379 391 4L3 425 435 435 438 447 459 462 489 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Fiji Islanders in a Drum Ritual . -. . . . 32 Javanese Picture Theater Banner . . . . . 33 Drummers who Accompany the Dance in Ceylon . . 64 Egyptian Dancer and Accompanists } from the Tomb of Djeserkara at Thebes . . . . 65 Mexican Mariachi Orchestra and Dancer . . 96 cole de Danse ........ 97 Rameau ( after Carmontelle) . . . . . .128 C. W . von Gluck in his 62nd year, from the painting by /. 5. Duplessis, Paris } 1776 . . . . . 128 Johann Sebastian Bach . . . . . . .129 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from the painting by Lorenz Fogel,1887 129 Erich Wolfgang Korngold . . . . . .160 Robert Schumann in his 2ist year when he wrote his op. 2, Papillons, from a portrait taken at that time . 1 60 Edward Grieg, etched from life in Chris tiania in 1903 by William Peters . ., . . . . . .161 Igor Stravinsky . .161 Johann Strauss, / r v leading his orchestra in 1853, from a lithograph published at that time . . . .192 Paul Whiteman 193 Adolph Bolm 193 John Alden Carpenter 288 12 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE William Grant Still 288 cole de Danse, after a painting by Degas ( 1834-1917} 289 Milhau

Four Centuries Of Ballet

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Author : Lincoln Kirstein
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1984-01-01

Four Centuries Of Ballet written by Lincoln Kirstein and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.

Traces the development of dance's basic components, choreography, gesture, music, costume, and scenery, and discusses the backgrounds of the most important ballets

Tchaikovsky Ballet Music

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Author : John Hamilton Warrack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

Tchaikovsky Ballet Music written by John Hamilton Warrack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Ballets categories.

Parisian Music Hall Ballet 1871 1913

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Author : Sarah Gutsche-Miller
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015

Parisian Music Hall Ballet 1871 1913 written by Sarah Gutsche-Miller and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.

This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siècle.