Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV : Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos Paperback / softback
Part of the Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs series
Paperback / softback
Description
Dance played a major role in all French Baroque theatrical entertainments.
Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance, largely because it has survived complete in all its components - choreography, music, and text - and also because it uses a previously unknown dance notation system.
This book reproduces the entire manuscript of this ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed.
Chapters devoted to the composer, choreographer, and performers provide a framework for understanding the performance context not only of this work, but of other court entertainments of the period.
A study and evaluation of the notation system in which the dances are recorded, together with a detailed analysis of the dances, completes the introduction.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages, 10 Printed music items; 1 Tables, unspecified; 6 Halftones, unspecified; 95 Line drawings
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780521020220
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages, 10 Printed music items; 1 Tables, unspecified; 6 Halftones, unspecified; 95 Line drawings
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/09/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521020220
