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MUSICAL THEATRE AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
LE MARIAGE DE LA GROSSE CATHOS |
| By: |
Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Carol G. Marsh, John Butt |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521020220 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521020220 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 September, 2000 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
This book reproduces the entire manuscript of the ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed. |
| Synopsis: |
Dance played a major role in all French Baroque theatrical entertainments. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance, largely because it has survived complete in all its components - choreography, music, and text - and also because it uses a previously unknown dance notation system. This book reproduces the entire manuscript of this ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed. Chapters devoted to the composer, choreographer, and performers provide a framework for understanding the performance context not only of this work, but of other court entertainments of the period. A study and evaluation of the notation system in which the dances are recorded, together with a detailed analysis of the dances, completes the introduction. |
| Illustrations: |
101 b/w illus. 1 table 10 music examples |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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