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Ballet Music
A Handbook
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2014
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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, apothéose—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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-1458-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8660-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
454
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Contents No access
List of Ballets No access
Preface No access
Chapter One. The World of Ballet: Choreographers, Ballet Masters, and Dancers No access
Chapter Two. Ballet Structure and Terminology No access
Chapter Three. The Ballet Company No access
Chapter Four. The Pianist No access
Chapter Five. The Conductor No access
Chapter Six. The Composer No access
Chapter Seven. The Music Librarian No access
Chapter Eight. Music Preparation and Adapting Classic Ballets No access
Chapter Nine. Creating New Ballets No access
Chapter Ten. Licensing, Contracts, and Legal Issues No access
Chapter Eleven. Ballet Repertoire No access
Chapter Twelve. Ballet Reference Resources No access
Appendix 1. Instrumental Abbreviations No access Pages 409 - 410
Appendix 2. Request for Grand Rights License No access Pages 411 - 412
Appendix 3. Grand Rights License No access Pages 413 - 416
Appendix 4. Music Commissioning Agreement: Single Commissioner, Digital Score No access Pages 417 - 422
Appendix 5. Joint Music Commissioning Agreement: Multiple Commissioners, Printed Score No access Pages 423 - 428
Appendix 6. Master Use License No access Pages 429 - 430
Appendix 7. Television and Internet Promotion Master Use License Agreement No access Pages 431 - 434
Index No access Pages 435 - 452
About the Author No access Pages 453 - 454
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