Product Description: This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and lucrative Broadway works...read more

Product Description: In Getting Started in Ballet, A Parent's Guide to Dance Education, authors Anna Paskevska and Maureen Janson comprehensively present the realities that parents can anticipate during their child's training and/or career in ballet. It can be daunting and confusing when parents discover their child's desire to dance...read more

Product Description: From its early inception at the French court to modern-day developments and interpretations, ballet has long had a popular following. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history, performers, composers and music, highlighting the very best ballets and the stand-out tracks that should feature in the collection of any aficionado...read more

Product Description: The music of Tchaikovsky remains as much loved in the twenty-first century as it was a hundred years ago. But it has so much more to offer than luscious orchestration and tuneful melodies. In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional views of Tchaikovsky to explore the dramatic impact of his music by walking readers through the remarkable range of works by this great Russian composer...read more

Product Description: Prominent components of Louis XIV’s propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J...read more

Product 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...read more

Product Description: Between them, Dolan Ellis and Sam Lowe have roamed across Arizona for more than a century, searching for words and music to describe and glorify their adopted homeland. Dolan Ellis, Arizona's Official State Balladeer since 1966, has written more than several hundred songs that extol Arizona's beauty and grandeur...read more

Product Description: Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora -- the plays used in the formation of the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s...read more

Title: The Sleeping Beauty Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Original Publisher: Muzgiz The Prologue and Act I of Tchaikovsky's complete ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66. Performer’s Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Product Description: In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works...read more

Product Description: (Piano Solo Songbook). Selection of famous ballet melodies and moments arranged for solo piano, including music by Berlioz, Borodin, Chopin and others.

Product Description: At midnight in 1918, a hungry 14-year-old scuttles along the frozen streets of St. Petersburg. Bullets zip past his ears. Panting, he ducks into a doorway until the gunshots are heard no more. Then he runs to his Aunt Nadia’s apartment, clutching the raw fish he had stolen from the wharves controlled by the armies of the Russian Revolution...read more

Product Description: JOSÉ RAFAEL VILAR VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA Este pequeño libro surgió de la falta de un texto, accesible y en castellano, para que mis alumnos de historia de la danza pudieran ampliar sus conocimientos, por lo que éste podrá servir a muchos lectores, artistas en formación o profesionales o sólo neófitos con interés en este hermoso arte, para conocer y disfrutarlo mejor, porque cuando se conoce de dónde surge una obra o cómo era su entorno, se la disfruta mejor...read more

Product Description: This book explores the changes of style and knowledge about music around 1700 in eleven essays from musicology, literary studies, philosophy and legal history. The key to the change is a new understanding of the rules for composing, making music and listening...read more