Description |
xi, 345 pages : illustration, music ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989
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Eastman studies in music.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Richard Strauss, dance, and ballet -- pt. 1. Becoming a ballet composer, 1905-1914. Strauss en route to Die Insel Kythere (The Isle of Cythera, 1900) ; Josephslegende (The legend of Joseph, 1914), Léonide Massine, and the music box dancer -- pt. 2. "To drive away all cloudy thoughts," 1919-1941. The Strauss-Heinrich Kröller Ballettsoirée (1923) and interwar Viennese cultural politics ; Kitsch and Schlagobers (Whipped cream, 1924) ; Verstrausster Couperin, verklingender Strauss, Verklungene Feste: Tanzvisionen aus zwei Jahrhunderten (Bygone celebrations: dance visions from two centuries, 1941). |
Subject |
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Ballets.
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Ballets -- History and criticism.
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Ballets. |
ISBN |
9781580463218 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1580463215 hardcover alkaline paper |
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