Dance and music of court and theater : selected writings of Wendy Hilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilton, Wendy.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Dance and music series ; no. 10.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Dance & music series ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--France--History--18th century.

Dance.

Music--France--18th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Labanotation.

Dance--History--18th century--France.

Music--History--18th century--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 455 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

PART ONE: The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater

CHAPTER 1: Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715

CHAPTER 2: Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729: Lully, Moliére, and Beauchamp; Pécour and Campra

CHAPTER 3: Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715

CHAPTER 4: The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson

PART TWO: An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation

Introduction To The Analysis Of Eighteenth Century Dance Sources

CHAPTER 5: A Survey of the Components of the Dance

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

CHAPTER 7: The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation

CHAPTER 8: The Notation of Meter in Chorégraphie

CHAPTER 9: The Steps in Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter

CHAPTER 10: The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations

CHAPTER 11: Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression

CHAPTER 12: Technique of Etiquette

CHAPTER 13: The Menuet According to Rameau

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1: Labanotation Examples

APPENDIX 2: Exercises

APPENDIX 3: Chronology of Political Events

BOOK TWO: Updated and Expanded Articles and a Ballroom dance à deux in Beauchamp-Feullet Notation

PART ONE: A Dance for Kings: The Seventeenth-Century French Courante

Its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proportional foundations

PART TWO: Fifty-Six Dances to Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): A Survey

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

Notes:

Includes facsim. reprint of: Dance of court & theater : the French noble style, 1690-1725. c1981.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Hilton, Wendy. Dance of court & theater.

Dance of court & theater.

ISBN:

9780945193982

094519398X

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07728 hdl