Book of Donmon Teith

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky--composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and

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Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the style known as "grotesque"—a virtuoso style that combined French ballet techn

"This edition presents for the first time most of the surviving ballet music performed at Mannheim in the 1760s and 1770s. Each ballet is complete and newly eng

The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, i