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La Sylphide : Paris 1832 and beyond / Edited by Marian Smith.
- Title
- La Sylphide : Paris 1832 and beyond / Edited by Marian Smith.
- Publication
- [Alton, Hampshire] : DANCE BOOKS, 2012.
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- Description
- xiii, 381 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This is the first English-language book dedicated to La Sylphide, one of the most enduring of the Romantic ballets in today's repertory. The authors of this collection of essays are practitioners and historians of dance and music.
- Alternative Title
- Sylphide : 1832 and Beyond
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- "Contributors are Ivor Guest, Debra H. Sowell, Sandra Noll Hammond, Matilda Ertz, Erik Aschengreen, Helena Kopchick Spencer, Ole Nørlyng, Alexander Bennett, Ornella Di Tondo and Marian Smith"--P. [4] of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Marion Smith -- Paris : The genesis of la sylphide / Ivor Guest ; Contextualising Madge's scarf: The Pas de Schall as romantic convention / Debra H. Sowell ; Dancing la sylphide in 1832: Something old or something new? / Sandra Noll Hammond ; Schneitzhoefffer's music for la sylphide / Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz -- Copenhagen : Bournonville's la sylphide -- a ballet about a dreamer and his longings / Erik Aschengreen ; Sylphiden and the Danish cultural canon / Helena Kopchick Spencer ; The body that sings / Ole Nørlying -- Italy / Ornella di Tondo : The italian silfide and the contentious reception of ultramontane ballet ; Filippo Taglioni's sylphide and its antecedents ; The Italian silfide ; Variants in the plot ; The reception of la silfide in the press ; The music of the italian Silfide -- On producing la sylphide: History, recollections / Alexander Bennett : Some settings, characters, machines ; Simplified choreographic script -- In retrospect / Marion Smith : Levinson's syliphide and the danseur's bad reputation ; Les sylphides (plural) -- Appendices : Some productions of la sylphide ; The French liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; The Danish liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; Plot summary of la sylphide from le courrier des thêátres (1832) ; Regarding the Bartholomin score ; Comparison of three manuscript scores for la sylphide.
- ISBN
- 9781852731564 (pbk.)
- 1852731567 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 794137075
- SCSB-11810125
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library