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  • Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos

    Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV by Harris-Warrick, Rebecca; Marsh, Carol G.;

    Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos

    Series: Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number New ed
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 29 September 2005

    • ISBN 9780521020220
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages360 pages
    • Size 296x209x18 mm
    • Weight 872 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 101 b/w illus. 1 table 10 music examples
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    Short 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.

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    Long description:

    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.

    '... fascinating and valuable ...' Early Music

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; 1. The performance context; 2. The creators and performers; 3. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos in performance; 4. The music; 5. The dance notation; 6. The dances; 7. The sources; Appendix A. Libretto; Appendix B. Reproduction of the article 'Choregraphie' from the Encyclop&&&233;die ou dictionnaire raisonn&&&233; des sciences, des arts et des metiers (1753).

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