Title: La Sylphide : Paris 1832 and beyond /
Authors: Smith, Marian Elizabeth,; Guest, Ivor, 1920-2018.; Sowell, Debra H.; Hammond, Sandra Noll.; Ertz, Matilda.; Aschengreen, Erik.; Spencer, Helena Kopchick.; Nørlyng, Ole, 1946-; Bennett, Alexander, 1929-2003.; Di Tondo, Ornella.; Ertz, Matilda Ann Butkas, 1979-
Publisher: DANCE BOOKS,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sylphide (Choreographic work); Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville); Ballet Europe History.
Contents: Introduction / Marion Smith -- Paris : The genesis of la sylphide / Ivor Guest ; Contextualising Madge's scarf: The Pas de Schall as romantic convention / Debra H. Sowell ; Dancing la sylphide in 1832: Something old or something new? / Sandra Noll Hammond ; Schneitzhoefffer's music for la sylphide / Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz -- Copenhagen : Bournonville's la sylphide -- a ballet about a dreamer and his longings / Erik Aschengreen ; Sylphiden and the Danish cultural canon / Helena Kopchick Spencer ; The body that sings / Ole Nørlying -- Italy / Ornella di Tondo : The italian silfide and the contentious reception of ultramontane ballet ; Filippo Taglioni's sylphide and its antecedents ; The Italian silfide ; Variants in the plot ; The reception of la silfide in the press ; The music of the italian Silfide -- On producing la sylphide: History, recollections / Alexander Bennett : Some settings, characters, machines ; Simplified choreographic script -- In retrospect / Marion Smith : Levinson's syliphide and the danseur's bad reputation ; Les sylphides (plural) -- Appendices : Some productions of la sylphide ; The French liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; The Danish liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; Plot summary of la sylphide from le courrier des thêátres (1832) ; Regarding the Bartholomin score ; Comparison of three manuscript scores for la sylphide.