Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies
sometimes wonder if they haven't entered a foreign country-a place
where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so
bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance
background, phrases and terms--boy's variation, pas d'action,
apotheose-simply don't fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even
a familiar term like adagio means something quite different in the
world of dance. Like any working professional, those conductors,
composers, rehearsal pianists, instrumentalists and even music
librarians working with professional ballet and dance companies
must learn what dance professionals talk about when they talk about
music. In Ballet Music: A Handbook Matthew Naughtin provides a
practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet
companies, whether as a full-time staff member or as an independent
contractor. In this comprehensive work, he addresses the daily
routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the respective roles
of the conductor, company pianist and music librarian and their
necessary collaboration with choreographers and ballet masters, and
examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on
stage, from selection or existing music to commissioning original
scores to staging the final production. Because ballet companies
routinely revise the great ballets to fit the needs of their staff
and stage, audience and orchestra, ballet repertoire is a tangled
web for the uninitiated. At the core of Ballet Music: A Handbook
lies an extensive listing of classic ballets in the standard
repertoire, with information on their history, versions, revisions,
instrumentation, score publishers and other sources for tracking
down both the original music and subsequent musical additions and
adaptations. Ballet Music: A Handbook is an invaluable resource for
conductors, pianists and music librarians as well as any student,
scholar or fan of the ballet interested in the complex machinery
that works backstage before the curtain goes up.
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