The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant. [electronic resource]
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xli, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content type
text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile -- Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera -- English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer -- The baroque body / Mark Franko -- Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth ce...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of...
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The Cambridge companion to ballet / edited by Marion Kant. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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Cambridge companions to music
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English
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74VKVw6gKWKZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVw6gKWKZ
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ISBN
1-139-00162-0
1-139-81716-7
DDC
792.809
MMS ID
991023962534702626
