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Minor Ballet Composers - Biographical Sketches of Sixty-Six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of West (Paperback)
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Minor Ballet Composers - Biographical Sketches of Sixty-Six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of West (Paperback)
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While most music lovers are familiar with the famous scores of
Tchaikovsky, Delibes, and Stravinsky, many other lesser-known
composers also wrote for the ballet. Several of these composers
wrote almost exclusively for the ballet--and all enriched the world
of dance. Minor Ballet Composers presents biographical sketches of
66 underappreciated ballet composers of the 19th and 20th centuries
from around the world, along with selected stories from the ballets
they helped create. While the composers'contributions to ballet
music are emphasized, all aspects of their lives and works are
touched upon. Plot summaries and excerpts from reviews of many of
the ballets are also provided. Other topics of interest you'll find
covered in Minor Ballet Composers include: Les Six: Darius Milhaud,
Louis Durey, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, and
Germaine Tailleferre--and their relationship with Erik Satie and
Jean Cocteau how politics, revolutions, and wars have affected
composers and their works who studied with whom; who collaborated
with whom schools, movements, and musical renaissance the
importance of opera to ballet music the relationship between film
scores and ballet music which books, plays, stories, and folk tales
certain ballets are based upon where many of these ballets
premieredMinor Ballet Composers emphasizes the importance of
second-tier composers and their influence on the rich tradition of
music written for the dance (though in some cases the music was
appropriated for the ballet from other original designs). The
gathering of these composers in a single volume in appreciation of
their ballet music, with a glossary of choreographers and an index
of ballet titles, makes this book a useful volume for ballet
aficionados, music librarians, musicians, and others interested in
dance and dance music.
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