Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet

An in depth discussion of the relationships between music and ballet. Part 1 contains a broad overview of different musical concepts in twentieth-century dance and proposes a new way of understanding musical-choreographic meanings, while part 2 applies this framework to the works of Ashton, Balanchine, and Tudor. A groundbreaking work of enormous importance for analysts, reconstructors, performers, and historians of music and dance alike.

CONTENIDO:

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword

- Part 1
1. Liberation Movements
Musical Theory and Practice in Twentieth-Century Ballet
2. Hearing the Dance, Watching the Music
Issues of Analysis, Identity and Working Process

- Part 2
3. George Balanchine
4. Frederick Ashton
5. Antony Tudor

Notes to the Chapter
Select Bibliography
Index