Ballet music : a handbook
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Ballet music : a handbook
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Rowman & Littlefield, c2014
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-407) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: How Ballet Works
Chapter 1: The World of Ballet: Choreographers, Ballet Masters, Dancers
Chapter 2: Ballet Structure and Terminology
Chapter 3: The Ballet Company
Chapter 4: The Pianist
Chapter 5: The Conductor
Chapter 6: The Composer
Chapter 7: The Music Librarian
Chapter 8: Music Preparation, Adapting Classic Ballets
Chapter 9: Creating New Ballets
Chapter 10: Licensing, Contracts, Legal Issues
Part II: Repertoire and Reference
Chapter 11: Ballet Repertoire
Chapter 12: Ballet Reference Resources
Appendix 1: Instrumental Abbreviations
Appendix 2: Request for Grand Rights License
Appendix 3: Grand Rights License
Appendix 4: Music Commissioning Agreement
Appendix 5: Joint Music Commissioning Agreement
Appendix 6: Master Use License
Appendix 7: Television and Internet Promotion Master Use License Agreement
About the Author
Index
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