Author: Mabel DolmetschPublisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Dances of Shakespeare
Author: Jim HoskinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135483124
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances, and roundels. Accompanied by clear illustrations, these instructions allow even the dance-challenged to quickly master enough technique to suit amateur, community, college, or semi-professional productions. Other useful features include a chronological listing of popular dances similar in spirit to those of Shakespeare's days, designed for those staging Shakespeare's work in periods other than as written, as well as an appendix list of the plays grouped by what is called for in the text: a "dance," a "masque," or a specific dance form. Dances of Shakespeare is a "must have" for all student directors and performers interested in staging Shakespeare's works.
The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675
Author: Ian PaynePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351546732
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. Part One centres on the manuscript sources which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography. In viewing the Almain within its broader historical context, Ian Payne throws new light on the dance, arguing that, together with the measures which accompany it in the choreographies, it owes an even greater debt to the English country dance than has hitherto been acknowledged, a popular style that received its fullest expression in Playford's English Dancing Master of 1651. The second part of the book focuses on the dances themselves. The steps are described in detail and reconstructions provided for the nine Almains and some of the other measures included in the manuscripts. Part Three comprises a complete critical edition of the manuscripts. These easily performable versions of the dances will be an invaluable aid to those wishing to learn the dances, reconstruct them for stagings of Shakespeare's plays or Jacobean masques, and for dance historians.
Tudor England
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 863
Book Description
This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays. Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux family * Espionage * Family of Love * food and diet * James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell * inns * Ket's Rebellion * John Lyly * mapmaking * Frances Meres * miniature painting * Pavan * Pilgrimage of Grace * Revels Office * Ridolfi plot * Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke * treason * and much more. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Dance in Society
Author: Frances RustPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415175937
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dance In Society Ils 85
Author: Frances RustPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134554079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This is Volume II of nine in a collection on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1969 this is an analysis of the relationship between the social dance and society in England from the Middle Ages to the 1960s.
The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558
Author: John Duncan MackiePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198217060
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and eccleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-Papalism of Henry VIII.
Fifteenth-century Dance and Music: Treatises and music
Author: A. William SmithPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193258
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Vol. 1: Treatises and music ; vol. 2: choreographic descriptions with concordances of variants.
Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Author: Harold GleasonPublisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780882843797
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This is a complete revision of the second edition, designed as a guide and resource in the study of music from the earliest times through the Renaissance period. The authors have completely revised and updated the bibliographies; in general they are limited to English language sources. In order to facilitate study of this period and to use materials efficiently, references to facsimiles, monumental editions, complete composers' works and specialized anthologies are given. The authors present this systematic organization in this volume in the hope that students, teachers, and performers may find in it a ready tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of the music of this period.
Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale
Author: Greta Mary HairPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9782884491419
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description