Title: Music for the dance :
Authors: Teck, Katherine.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Physical description: viii, 230 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: M
Contents: Creation. Choreographers talk about music ; Call in the composers! ; The partnership of movement and sound ; Composer-conductor-instrumentalists -- Performance. Free-lancers in the pits ; The orchestra for American Ballet Theatre ; La bayadère : from rehearsals to curtain calls ; Maestro, please -- Silent artists speak. Dancers' tales ; What is musicality in a dancer? -- Toward the future. Building theaters, patronage, and artistry ; Obtaining new music for choreography ; A festival of ballets to American music.
Notes: Includes index.