Musical theatre at the court of Louis XIV : le mariage de la Grosse Cathos
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Musical theatre at the court of Louis XIV : le mariage de la Grosse Cathos
（Cambridge musical texts and monographs）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hbk
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Bibliographiy: p. 330-336
Includes index
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Description
Dance played a major role in all French Baroque theatrical entertainments. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance, largely because it has survived complete in all its components - choreography, music, and text - and also because it uses a previously unknown dance notation system. This book reproduces the entire manuscript of this ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed. Chapters devoted to the composer, choreographer, and performers provide a framework for understanding the performance context not only of this work, but of other court entertainments of the period. A study and evaluation of the notation system in which the dances are recorded, together with a detailed analysis of the dances, completes the introduction.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The performance context
- 2. The creators and performers
- 3. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos in performance
- 4. The music
- 5. The dance notation
- 6. The dances
- 7. The sources
- Appendix A. Libretto
- Appendix B. Reproduction of the article 'Choregraphie' from the Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers (1753).
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