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This document is a meticulously detailed analysis of Debussy’s revolutionary score Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. The analysis isolates aspects of structure, melody and melodic development, harmony, orchestration techniques and texture… more

LimelightAnyone who has ever seen a live performance of ballet knows the thrill of seeing larger-than-life figures on stage dancing in ways that seem superhuman. What are these dancers like beyond the footlights? How have they acquired such… more

“The Nutcracker” is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this volume, Jennifer Fisher offers insights into the Nutcracker phenome… more

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad’s famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to m… more

“In the preparation of this companion volume of Great Singers, the same limitations of purpose have guided the author as in the case of the earlier book, which sketched the lives of the greatest lyric artists from Faustina Bordoni to Henrie… more

In 1999 the Maryinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet and Theatre in St. Petersburg recreated its 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty. The revival showed the classic work in its original sets and costumes and restored pantomime and choreography that… more

“It is not an ill thing to cross at times the marches of silence and see the phantoms of life and death in a new way. It is not an ill thing, even if one meet only the fantasies of beauty.”—FIONA MACLEOD.

Seven lessons follow a young dancer’s development, from basic positions and postures to more advanced levels.

“It is not an ill thing to cross at times the marches of silence and see the phantoms of life and death in a new way. It is not an ill thing, even if one meet only the fantasies of beauty.”—FIONA MACLEOD.

In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929), the Ballets Russes radically trans… more

“It is not an ill thing to cross at times the marches of silence and see the phantoms of life and death in a new way. It is not an ill thing, even if one meet only the fantasies of beauty.”—FIONA MACLEOD.

“In selecting a few of the operas every child should know, the editor”s greatest difficulty is in determining what to leave out. The wish to include L”Africaine, Othello, Lucia, Don Pasquale, Mignon, Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Rienzi,… more

“The study of music notation and terminology by classes in conservatories and in music departments of colleges and normal schools is a comparative innovation, one reason for the non-existence of such courses in the past being the lack of … more

“The editor of the new edition of Mother Goose”s Melodies knows much more about the curious history of the Boston edition than I do. And the reader will not need, even in these lines of mine, any light on the curious question about Madam V… more

Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the 20th century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces. This is a study of one of the greatest artistic collaborations in history. … more

“Here is New York City Ballet as it really is- the good, the not so good, and the majestically beautiful. It’s a true story, and it’s told by someone who can honestly claim that he was there.”

BRIAN. BYRON. RALPH. MITCHELL. The four men that made Brittany Townsend’s unique life heaven and hell. A gifted dancer hailing from Richmond’s Southside, she was determined to make it to Broadway…until someone threw salt in the game… DOMINI… more

This is the first book-length study in any language about this Russian artist—Marius Petipa’s colleague and Tchaikovsky’s collaborator—who is widely celebrated and yet virtually unknown. It follows Ivanov from his infancy in a St Petersbu… more

One evening, not long after ending a stint as the pop music critic at the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Cello Suites.” There, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the music…. more