Dance of court & theater : the French noble style, 1690-1725 /
Wendy Hilton ; edited by Caroline Gaynor ; labanotation by Mireille Backer.
- London : Dance Books, 1981.
- v, 356 p. : ill., music ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 335-349.
PREFACE -- PART ONE The Noble Style of Dance in the Age of Louis XIV: General Background of Court and Theater : Ch. 1 Dance at the French Court, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 2 Five Theatrical Personalities, 1632-1729 -- Ch. 3 Dance Types and Theatrical Technique, 1650-1715 -- Ch. 4 The Dancing Masters and Their Books, 1623-1725: Feuillet, Rameau, and Tomlinson -- PART TWO An Analysis of The French Noble Style of Dance and Its Notation : Introduction the analysis of Eighteenth-Century Dance Sources -- Ch. 5 A Survey of the Components of the Dance -- Ch. 6 The Beauchamp-Feuillet System of Chorégraphie: The Representation of Dancing Area, Spatial Figures, the Music in Dance Scores, and Dancers -- Ch. 7 The Theory of the Arm Motions and Their Notation -- Ch. 8 The Notation of Meter in Chorégraphie -- Ch. 9 The Steps and Their General Performance in Duple- and Triple-Meter. Ch. 10 The Steps in More Complex Metrical Situations -- Ch. 11 Step-sequences, Tempi, and Expression -- Ch. 12 Technique of Etiquette -- Ch. 13 The Minuet According to Rameau -- APPENDICES : APPENDIX 1 Labanotation Examples -- APPENDIX 2 Exercises -- APPENDIX 3 Chronology of Political Events -- Bibliography -- Index.
"Dance of Court and Theater provides in-depth analysis of the primary sources on dance of the baroque period and reveals fresh insights about dance and the interrelated arts of music and drama." -- Jacket