Nobilta Di Dame

Author : Fabritio Caroso
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobiltà Di Dame written by Fabritio Caroso and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabritio Caroso was dancing master to some of the greatest princely families of Italy, and Nobiltà di dame, his sumptuous collection of ballroom dances and their music, reflects an age that believed that the person of high rank should be a work of art, uniting strength and beauty. Caroso's detailed instructions (including rules for steps, style and etiquetter, and forty-eight actual choreographies) are unequalled by any contemporary manual in their specificity and clarity. Most dances are preceeded by an engraving showing the opening position and illustrating many aspects of dress, posture, and gesture. A full scholarly apparatus, giving new information unavailable elsewhere, makes the book even more valuable to dancers and to students of dance and music at the junction of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Author : Fabritio Caroso
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486286198
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courtly Dance of the Renaissance written by Fabritio Caroso and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance classic includes choreography and music for 49 dances from the period 1550 to 1610, plus guidance on court dress and etiquette for men and women. Indispensable source of authentic information.

Author : Tilden Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190059788
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance Theory written by Tilden Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance revives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a coherent reading of the interaction of theory and practice during two millennia of dance history. In fifty-five selected readings with explanatory text, this book follows the various constructions of dance theories as they have morphed and evolved in time, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century. Dance Theory is a collection of source readings that, commensurate with current teaching practice, foregrounds dance and performance theory in its presentation of western dance forms. Divided into nine chapters organized chronologically by historical era and predominant intellectual and artistic currents, the book presents a history of an idea from one generation to another. Each chapter contains introductions that not only provide context and significance for the individual source readings, but also create narrative threads that link different chapters and time periods. Based entirely on primary sources, the book makes no claim to cite every source, but rather, in connecting the dots between significant high points, it attempts to trace a coherent and fair narrative of the evolution of dance theory as a concept in Western culture.

Author : Lynn Brooks
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029922533X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Work written by Lynn Brooks and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-01-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631944X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious and Modern Inventions written by Rebecca Cypess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.

Author : Bram van Leuveren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004537813
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572–1615 written by Bram van Leuveren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.

Author : David J. Buch
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193333
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour, 1575-1651: Six allemandes ; 2: Ballet à Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13 (4 airs) ; 3: Concert à Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets, 1627 ; 4: Ballet des Nations ... ; 5: Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus ... 1651 written by David J. Buch and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Buch's informative volume is the first modern study edition and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour 1575-1651. These full scores are especiall y important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The exception here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600 a Ballet cheval of 1615 a selection of miscellaneous Entres from several ballets prepared for the Concert Louis XIII par les Viollons et lest 12 Grands hautbois of 1627 and Philidor's five-part reading of seventeen Entres from the Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus of 1651.

Author : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005280
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music written by Stewart Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Author : A. Arcangeli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230507980
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recreation in the Renaissance written by A. Arcangeli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. The book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.

Author : K. Larson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137473347
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Reading Mary Wroth written by K. Larson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction.