Seventeenth-century ballet : a multi-art spectacle
Subtitle: an international interdisciplinary symposium
By: edited by Barbara Grammeniati
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781456881979
Subjects: Dance; History; Congresses
Notes: Research papers presented at the symposium held at King's College, London on 7 August 2010.
Table of contents: title: Renaissance ballet: an introduction / Barbara Gammeniati; title: Maria Magdalena of Austria and the uses of danced spectacle / Iain Fenlon; title: Dance and the "others": the moresca / Anthony M. Cummings; title: The art of dance in early seventeenth century Italy: "prima" or "seconda" pratica? / Cecilia Nocilli; title: Filippo d'Agliè (1604)-1667: ballets and musical style / Barbara Grammeniati; title: Genesis of the "Ballettoper" at the court of Dresdon (Saxony) / Uta Dorothea Sauer; title: War and peace in the court ballets performed during the reign of Queen Christina of Sweden (1664-54) / Stefano Fogelberg Rotta.