Title: The Victor book of ballets and ballet music /
Authors: Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981.; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Year: 1950
Subjects: Ballets Stories, plots, etc.; Ballets Discography.
Contents: Ballet perspectives -- In the beginning -- Early developments -- The entrance of virtuosity -- Toward an expressive medium -- The reforms of Noverre -- Masters of Italian dance -- The Romantic ballet -- Changing values -- Ballet in opera -- Toward a freer operatic dance -- The birth of Russian ballet -- The reign of Petipa -- Fokine and the Diaghilev Era -- Early theatrical dance in America -- Ballet revival -- Léonide Massine -- George Balanchine -- The work of ballet theatre -- Antony Tudor -- Jerome Robbins -- Loring and de Mille -- Ballet in musical comedy -- Outside the Danse d'École -- The stories of the ballets -- Adélaïde, ou La Langage des Fleurs -- Aleko -- El amor Brujo -- Apollon Musagète -- Appalachian spring -- L'Après-Midi d'un Faune (The afternoon of a faun) -- Bacchanale -- Le Baiser de la Fée (The fairy's kiss) -- Ballet imperial -- Le Beau Danube -- Billy the Kid -- Bluebeard -- Bogatyri -- Bolero -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- La Boutique Fantasque --^