| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 248 pages :) : facsimiles, music, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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score |
| Summary |
This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 1830-1870. The Romantic ballet had been inaugurated by Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable (21 November 1831) with its ghostly Ballet of the Nuns, risen from their graves and dancing in the moonlight, led by their spectral Abbess; a role created by Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) to her father's choreography. La Sylphide (1832), inspired by this situation, was the first fully fledged Rom ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ballets -- Scores.
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Ballets -- Scores. |
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Ballets -- France.
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Ballets. |
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France. |
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Electronic books.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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| Added Author |
Letellier, Robert Ignatius.
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Schneitzhoeffer, Jean-Madeleine, 1785-1852.
Sylphide.
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Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856.
Giselle.
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Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856.
Corsaire.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Letellier, Robert Ignatius. French Romantic Ballets : Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, La Sylphide Adolphe-Charles Adam, Giselle and Le Corsaire. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443837972 |
| ISBN |
9781443838399 (electronic book) |
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144383839X (electronic book) |
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1443837970 |
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9781443837972 |
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