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Dance and music of court and theater: selected writings of Wendy Hilton
Wendy Hilton
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Frontmatter
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PREFACE TO THE SELECTED WRITINGS (page ix)
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BOOK ONE: A Complete facsimile of the 1981 edition, Dance of Court & Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xii)
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PREFACE TO BOOK ONE (page xiii)
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PART ONE: The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater
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CHAPTER 1 Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715 (page 3)
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CHAPTER 2 Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliére, and Beauchamp; Pécour and Campra (page 23)
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CHAPTER 3 Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715 (page 35)
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CHAPTER 4 The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson (page 45)
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PART TWO: An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation
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Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources (page 59)
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CHAPTER 5 A Survey of the Components of the Dance (page 65)
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CHAPTER 6 The Beauchamp-Feuillet System of Chorégraphie: The Representation of the Dancing Area, Spatial Figures, the Music in Dance Scores, Symbols for Foot Positions and Steps, Signs (page 85)
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CHAPTER 7 The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation (page 133)
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CHAPTER 8 The Notation of Meter in Chorégraphie (page 149)
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CHAPTER 9 The Steps in Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter (page 163)
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CHAPTER 10 The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations (page 239)
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CHAPTER 11 Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression (page 261)
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CHAPTER 12 Technique of Etiquette (page 269)
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CHAPTER 13 The Menuet According to Rameau (page 291)
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX 1 Labanotation Examples (page 311)
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APPENDIX 2 Exercises (page 327)
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APPENDIX 3 Chronology of Political Events (page 331)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 335)
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INDEX TO BOOK 1 (page 353)
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BOOK TWO: Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance à deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation (page 357)
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PART ONE: A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante--Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional foundations (page 359)
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PART TWO: Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey (page 377)
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PART THREE:Aimable Vainqueur or The Louvre: Louis Pécour's ballroom danse à deux with the music by André Campra from Hesione in four-part score (page 437)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 447)
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page 452)
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INDEX TO BOOK TWO (page 453)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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MAL | 82.1 (Feb. 2001): 100-103 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526465 |
TJ | 34.3 (Oct. 1982): 411-412 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3206939 |
NOT | 38.4 (Jun. 1982): 835-837 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/939980 |
DC | 5.1 (1982): 98-106 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1567486 |
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Published: c1997
Publisher: Pendragon Press
- 9780945193982 (hardcover)