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Dance and Music of Court and Theater Selected Writings of Wendy Hilton

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ISBN-10: 094519398X

ISBN-13: 9780945193982

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Wendy Hilton, Susan Bindig

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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 #65533; deux by LouisP#65533;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#65533;e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr#65533;e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the…    
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Book details

List price: $90.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Publication date: 7/30/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

Preface to the Selected Writings
A Complete facsimile of the 1981 edition, Dance of Court and Theater: The French Noble Style 1690-1725
Acknowledgments
Preface to Book One
The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater
Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715
Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliere, and Beauchamp; Pecour and Campra
Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715
The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson
An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation
Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources
A Survey of the Components of the Dance
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
The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation
The Notation of Meter in Choregraphie
The Steps and Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter
The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations
Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression
Technique of Etiquette
The Menuet According to Rameau
Labanotation Examples
App. 2: Exercises
Chronology of Political Events
Bibliography
Index to Book I
Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance a deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation
A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante - Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional formulations
Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey
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