Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook
Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook

Author: Jennifer Nevile

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9004377735

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Footprints of the Dance — An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook by Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master in Brussels. The dance master’s handwritten notebook contains unique material: a canon of dance figures and instructions for an exhibition with a pike; as well as signatures and general descriptions of his students, ballet plots and music associated with dancing. Reproduced for the first time are facsimile images of all the dance-related material, with transcriptions and translations of the ballet plots and instructions for the pike exhibition. The dance master is revealed as an active choreographer and performer, with strong ties to the French court musical establishment, and interested in fireworks and alchemy.

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

Author: Jennifer Nevile

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-06-25

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 025321985X

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From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an integral part of court ceremonies and festivals and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, of commercial theatrical productions. Whether at court or in the public theater danced spectacles were multimedia events that required close collaboration among artists, musicians, designers, engineers, and architects as well as choreographers. In order to fully understand these practices, it is necessary to move beyond a consideration of dance alone, and to examine it in its social context. This original collection brings together the work of 12 scholars from the disciplines of dance and music history. Their work presents a picture of dance in society from the late medieval period to the middle of the 18th century and demonstrates how dance practices during this period participated in the intellectual, artistic, and political cultures of their day.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico
Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Author: Michael Werner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 1024

ISBN-13: 1135973776

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Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

Dance and Music of Court and Theater
Dance and Music of Court and Theater

Author: Wendy Hilton

Publisher: Pendragon Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780945193982

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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 � deux by LouisP�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�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.

Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music
Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music

Author: Todd C. Borgerding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1136533230

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This collection addresses questions of gender and sexuality as they relate to music from the middle ages to the early seventeenth century. These essays present a body of scholarship that considers music as part of the history of sexuality, stimulating conversation within musicology as well as bringing music studies into dialogue with feminist, gender and queer theory. Also includes 20 musical examples.

Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music
Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music

Author: Todd Michael Borgerding

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780815333944

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.