Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750

Name: Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750
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ISBN: 9780253219855

ISBN-10: 025321985X

ISBN-13: 9780253219855

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jennifer Nevile

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Description:

An engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the Baroque

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Jennifer Nevile has a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of New South Wales. She has published many articles in early music, history, and dance journals, including Early Music and Renaissance Quarterly. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Music and Music Education at UNSW.



Acknowledgments


Editorial Note



Introduction and Overview



Dance in Europe 1250-1750




Dance at Court and in the City



Dance in Late Thirteenth-Century Paris




Dance and Society in Quattrocento Italy




Dance in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century France




Dance and the Public Theater



Pierre Beauchamps and the Public Theater




Dance in the London Theaters c. 1700-1750




Choreographic Structure and Music



The Relationship between Dance and Music in Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance Practice




The Basse Dance c. 1445-c. 1545




Choreographic Structure in Baroque Dance




Dance and the State



Your Most Humble Subject, Cesare Negri Milanese




The Politics of Ballet at the Court of Louis XIV




Mr. Isaac's The Pastorall and Issues of "Party"




Dance, Society, and the Cosmos



Plato's Philosophy of Dance




Moral Views on Dance




Order, Proportion, and Geometric Forms: The Cosmic Structure of Dance, Grand Gardens, and Architecture during the Renaissance



List of Dance Treatises, Manuscripts, Modern Editions, and Translations


Glossary


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index