Dance, dancers and dance-masters in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
By: Barbara Sparti ; edited by Gloria Giordano and Alessandro Pontremoli
Series: Biblioteca di danza
Publisher: Massimilano Piretti Editore
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bologna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9788864760414
Subjects: Dance; History
Notes: All essays previously published between 1988 and 2011.

Includes foreword, preface, and introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dance, dancers and dance-masters for the nobility.; title: Isabella and the dancing Este brides ;; title: Jewish dancing-masters and "Jewish dance" in Renaissance Italy : -- Guglielmo Ebreo and beyond ;; title: Giambatista Dufort and La danse noble--Italian style -- -- Humanism and antiquity in Renaissance dance.; title: Humanism and the arts : -- parallels between Alberti's On painting and Guglielmo Ebreo's On...dancing ;; title: Antiquity as inspiration in the Renaissance of dance : -- the classical connection and fifteenth-century Italian dance -- The theory and practice of dance.; title: Improvisation and embellishment in popular and art dances in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy ;; title: Balli to dance and play in a sixteenth-century miscellany ;; title: Rôti bouilli : -- take two "El gioioso fiorito" -- Questioning old truths : reconsidering the evidence.; title: The function and status of dance in the 15th-century Italian courts ;; title: Dance and historiography : -- Le balet comique de la Royne, and Italian perspective ;; title: Courtiers and "court dance" : -- to leap or not to leap ;; title: Baroque or not Baroque--is that the question? or Dance in seventeenth-century Italy -- -- Dance and music.; title: Would you like to dance this frottola? : -- choreographic concordances in two early sixteenth-century Tuscan sources ;; title: Irregular and asymmetric galliards : -- the case of Salamone Rossi ;; title: Hercules dancing in Thebes, in pictures and music -- -- Dance in visual images.; title: Inspired movement versus static uniformity : -- a comparison of trecento and quattrocento dance images ;; title: Chastisement and celebration :-- dance in Papal Bologna in the etchings of G.M. Mitelli (1634-1718).