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Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV

Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos

Rebecca Harris-Warrick editor Carol G Marsh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Sep '05

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This book reproduces the entire manuscript of the ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed.

Dance played a major role in all French Baroque theatrical entertainments. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance, largely because it has survived complete in all its components - choreography, music, and text - and also because it uses a previously unknown dance notation system. This book reproduces the entire manuscript of this ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed. Chapters devoted to the composer, choreographer, and performers provide a framework for understanding the performance context not only of this work, but of other court entertainments of the period. A study and evaluation of the notation system in which the dances are recorded, together with a detailed analysis of the dances, completes the introduction.

'... fascinating and valuable ...' Early Music
'Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol Marsh's superb study … reflects a significant marriage of historical research methodology and historical performance experience, presented in a lucid reader-friendly format.' Music and Letters

ISBN: 9780521020220

Dimensions: 296mm x 209mm x 18mm

Weight: 872g

360 pages