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The Victor book of ballets and ballet music

Title
The Victor book of ballets and ballet music / by Robert Lawrence.
Author
Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981.
Publication
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1950.

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Description
xviii, 531 pages : illustrations, portraits, music; 24 cm
Summary
Starts with a brief history of ballet, with brief paragraphs on some of the trend-setting choreographers. Outlines the plots of over 120 ballets (arranged alphabetically by title) and identifies key musical motifs. Includes a "selective discography".
Subject
  • Ballets > Stories, plots, etc
  • Ballets > Discography
  • Dance accompaniment music
  • Ballets
  • Dance accompaniment music
  • Ballets
  • Ballett
Genre/Form
  • discographies.
  • Discographies
  • Stories, plots, etc.
  • Discographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Selective discography": p. 507-511.
Contents
Ballet perspectives -- In the beginning -- Early developments -- The entrance of virtuosity -- Toward an expressive medium -- The reforms of Noverre -- Masters of Italian dance -- The Romantic ballet -- Changing values -- Ballet in opera -- Toward a freer operatic dance -- The birth of Russian ballet -- The reign of Petipa -- Fokine and the Diaghilev Era -- Early theatrical dance in America -- Ballet revival -- Léonide Massine -- George Balanchine -- The work of ballet theatre -- Antony Tudor -- Jerome Robbins -- Loring and de Mille -- Ballet in musical comedy -- Outside the Danse d'École -- The stories of the ballets -- Adélaïde, ou La Langage des Fleurs -- Aleko -- El amor Brujo -- Apollon Musagète -- Appalachian spring -- L'Après-Midi d'un Faune (The afternoon of a faun) -- Bacchanale -- Le Baiser de la Fée (The fairy's kiss) -- Ballet imperial -- Le Beau Danube -- Billy the Kid -- Bluebeard -- Bogatyri -- Bolero -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- La Boutique Fantasque -- Capriccio Espagnol -- Le Carnaval -- Les Cent Baisers -- Chopin Concerto -- Chorearteum -- Chout (Buffoon) -- Cinderella -- Cirque de Deux -- Concerto Barocco -- Contes Russes -- Coppélia, or the girl with enamel eyes -- Le Coq d'Or (The golden cockerel) -- La Création du Monde -- The creatures of Prometheus -- Cydalise and the faun (Cydalise et le Chèvre-Pied) -- Danses Concertantes -- Daphnis et Chloé -- Dark elegies -- Dim lustre -- Don Juan -- L'Epreuve d'Amour (The proof of love) -- Façade -- Facsimile -- The fair at Sorochinsk -- Fall River legend -- Fancy free -- Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (The good-humored ladies) -- Le Festin de L'Araignée (The spider's banquet) -- Filling station -- Francesca da Rimini -- Gaité Parisienne -- Gala performance -- Gayne -- Giselle, or the Wilis -- The golden age -- Graduation ball -- Graziana -- Helen of Troy -- L'Histoire d'un Soldat (A soldier's tale) -- H.P. -- The incredible flutist -- Interplay -- Iron foundry -- Jardin aus Lilas (Lilac garden) -- Jeux -- Jeux d'Enfants -- Labyrinth -- Mother Goose -- Mozartiana -- Namouna -- Les Noces (The Wedding) -- The nutcracker (Casse-Noisette) -- L'Oiseau de Feu (The firebird) -- On stage! -- Orpheus -- Paganini -- Parade -- Le Pas d'Acier (The march of steel) -- Pas de Quatre -- La Péri -- Peter and the wolf -- Les Petits Riens (As you like it) -- Petrouchka -- Pillar of fire -- Poker game (Jeu de Cartes) (Card party) -- Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor -- Les Présages -- The prodigal son -- The prospect before us -- Pulcinella -- Quelques fleurs -- Raymonda -- The red poppy -- Rodeo, or the courting at Burnt Ranch -- Romantic Age -- Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) -- Romeo and Juliet (Tudor) -- Le Rossignol (The nightingale) -- Rouge et noir -- Ruses d'Amour (Love's trickery) -- Russian soldier -- Le Sacre du Printemps (The rite of spring) -- St. Francis -- El Salon Mexico -- Scènes de Ballet -- Scheherazade -- The seasons (Les saisons) -- Serenade -- Seventh symphony -- Shadow of the wind -- Skyscrapers -- The Sleeping Beauty -- Le Spectre de la Rose -- Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) -- Les Sylphides) -- Sylvia, or the Nymph of Diana -- Symphonie concertante -- Symphonie Fantastique -- Symphony in C (La Palais de Cristal) -- Thamar -- Theme and variations -- The three-cornered hat (Le Tricorne) -- Le Tombeau de Couperin -- La Tragédie de Salomé -- The triumph of Neptune -- The Eulenspiegel -- Undertow -- La Valse -- Waltz Academy -- The wise virgins.
LCCN
50011189
OCLC
  • ocm00556573
  • 556573
  • SCSB-357019
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library