Home

WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help

Search

Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library

Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or

Cite/Export

Cite/Export

Copy a citation

APA (6th ed.)

Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.)

Harvard (18th ed.)

MLA (7th ed.)

Turabian (6th ed.)

Export a citation
Export to RefWorks Export to EndNote / Reference Manager Export to EasyBib
Export to EndNote / Reference Manager(non-Latin) Cancel
Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied.
Print
E-mail

E-mail

All fields are required.

The E-mail Address(es) field is required. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).

The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es).

You may send this item to up to five recipients.
Enter recipient e-mail address(es): Separate up to five addresses with commas (,)
The name field is required. Please enter your name.
Enter your name: Subject:
The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message.
E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81453064 Title: The Cambridge companion to ballet Author: Marion Kant Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780521832212 0521832217 9780521539869 0521539862 OCLC:81453064

Please verify that you are not a robot.

Cancel
Share
Permalink

Permalink

Copy this URL to link to this page:

Write a review
Rate this item:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Preview this item

Checking...

The Cambridge companion to ballet

Author:	Marion Kant
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:	Cambridge companions to music.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.
Rating:	(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.
Subjects	Ballet. Ballet -- History. Ballets -- Stories, plots, etc. View all subjects
More like this	User lists Similar Items

Find a copy in the library

Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form:	Aufsatzsammlung History Stories, plots, etc
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Marion Kant Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780521832212 0521832217 9780521539869 0521539862
OCLC Number:	81453064
Description:	xli, 353 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Contents:	The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile -- Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera -- English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer -- The baroque body / Mark Franko -- Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann -- The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / Sandra Noll Hammond -- The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / Tim Blanning -- Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / Judith Chazin-Benahum -- The French Revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann -- Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / Sarah Davis Cordova -- Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / Anne Middleboe Christensen -- The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / Marian E. Smith -- Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / Lynn Garafola -- Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / Thérèse Hurley -- The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht -- The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant -- The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / Erik Näslund -- The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl -- George Balanchine / Matilde Butkas -- Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / Juliet Bellow -- The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / Jennifer Fisher -- From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / Zheng Yangwen -- Giselle in a Cuban accent / Lester Tome -- European ballet in the age of ideologies / Marion Kant.
Series Title:	Cambridge companions to music.
Responsibility:	edited by Marion Kant.
More information:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Abstract:

This Companion traces the evolution of ballet as a theatrical art from the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century. An international team of writers discuss important and interesting aspects of Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

' ... a stimulating read if your curiosity has already been aroused as to how and why ballet is like it is, and whether it has a future as well as a past.' Dance Now 'This volume has a place in the Read more...

User-contributed reviews

Linked Data

Primary Entity

<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81453064> # The Cambridge companion to ballet
    a schema:CreativeWork, schema:Book ;
    library:oclcnum "81453064" ;
    library:placeOfPublication <http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_York_City> ; # New York
    library:placeOfPublication <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Place/cambridge> ; # Cambridge
    library:placeOfPublication <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries/enk> ;
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_history> ; # Ballet--History
    schema:about <http://id.worldcat.org/fast/826066> ; # Ballets
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_histoire> ; # Ballet--Histoire
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_histoires_intrigues_etc> ; # Ballet--Histoires, intrigues, etc
    schema:about <http://id.worldcat.org/fast/826017> ; # Ballet
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet> ; # Ballet
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballett> ; # Ballett
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Event/geschichte_1600_2000> ; # Geschichte 1600-2000
    schema:about <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101794> ; # Ballet--History
    schema:about <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballets> ; # Ballets
    schema:about <http://dewey.info/class/792.809/e22/> ;
    schema:bookFormat bgn:PrintBook ;
    schema:contributor <http://viaf.org/viaf/12537074> ; # Marion Kant
    schema:datePublished "2007" ;
    schema:description "'The Cambridge Companion to Ballet' contains a collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet."@en ;
    schema:description "The early dance manuals and the structure of ballet : a basis for Italian, French and English ballet / Jennifer Nevile -- Ballet de cour / Marina Nordera -- English masques / Barbara Ravelhofer -- The baroque body / Mark Franko -- Choreography and narrative : the ballet d'action of the eighteenth century / Dorion Weickmann -- The rise of ballet technique and training : the professionalism of an art form / Sandra Noll Hammond -- The making of history : John Weaver and the enlightenment / Tim Blanning -- Jean-Georges Noverre : dance and reform / Judith Chazin-Benahum -- The French Revolution and its spectacles / Inge Baxmann -- Romantic ballet in France : 1830-1850 / Sarah Davis Cordova -- Deadly sylphs and decent mermaids : the women in the Danish romantic world of August Bournonville / Anne Middleboe Christensen -- The orchestra as translator : French nineteenth-century ballet / Marian E. Smith -- Russian ballet in the age of Petipa / Lynn Garafola -- Opening the door to a fairy-tale world : Tchaikovsky's ballet music / Thérèse Hurley -- The romantic ballet and its critics : dance goes public / Lucia Ruprecht -- The soul of the shoe / Marion Kant -- The ballet avant-garde I : the Ballet Suédois and its modernist concept / Erik Näslund -- The ballet avant-garde II : the 'new' Russian and Soviet dance in the twentieth century Tim Scholl -- George Balanchine / Matilde Butkas -- Balanchine and the deconstruction of classicism / Juliet Bellow -- The Nutcracker : a cultural icon / Jennifer Fisher -- From Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment : ballet's sinicisation / Zheng Yangwen -- Giselle in a Cuban accent / Lester Tome -- European ballet in the age of ideologies / Marion Kant."@en ;
    schema:exampleOfWork <http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/66247601> ;
    schema:genre "Aufsatzsammlung"@en ;
    schema:genre "History"@en ;
    schema:genre "Stories, plots, etc."@en ;
    schema:inLanguage "en" ;
    schema:isPartOf <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Series/cambridge_companions_to_music> ; # Cambridge companions to music.
    schema:name "The Cambridge companion to ballet"@en ;
    schema:productID "81453064" ;
    schema:publication <http://www.worldcat.org/title/-/oclc/81453064#PublicationEvent/cambridge_new_york_cambridge_university_press_2007> ;
    schema:publisher <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Agent/cambridge_university_press> ; # Cambridge University Press
    schema:url <http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007279496-t.html> ;
    schema:workExample <http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780521539869> ;
    schema:workExample <http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780521832212> ;
    umbel:isLike <http://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/resource/GBA708262> ;
    wdrs:describedby <http://www.worldcat.org/title/-/oclc/81453064> ;
    .

Related Entities

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_York_City> # New York
    a schema:Place ;
    schema:name "New York" ;
    .

<http://dewey.info/class/792.809/e22/>
a schema:Intangible ;
.

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Agent/cambridge_university_press> # Cambridge University Press
    a bgn:Agent ;
    schema:name "Cambridge University Press" ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Event/geschichte_1600_2000> # Geschichte 1600-2000
    a schema:Event ;
    schema:name "Geschichte 1600-2000" ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Place/cambridge> # Cambridge
    a schema:Place ;
    schema:name "Cambridge" ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Series/cambridge_companions_to_music> # Cambridge companions to music.
    a bgn:PublicationSeries ;
    schema:hasPart <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81453064> ; # The Cambridge companion to ballet
    schema:name "Cambridge companions to music." ;
    schema:name "Cambridge companions to music" ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet> # Ballet
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet"@en ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_histoire> # Ballet--Histoire
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet--Histoire"@fr ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_histoires_intrigues_etc> # Ballet--Histoires, intrigues, etc
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet--Histoires, intrigues, etc"@fr ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballet_history> # Ballet--History
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet--History"@en ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballets> # Ballets
    a schema:Intangible ;
    rdfs:seeAlso <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011300> ;
    schema:name "Ballets"@en ;
    .

<http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Topic/ballett> # Ballett
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballett"@en ;
    .

<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101794> # Ballet--History
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet--History"@en ;
    .

<http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries/enk>
    a schema:Place ;
    dcterms:identifier "enk" ;
    .

<http://id.worldcat.org/fast/826017> # Ballet
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballet"@en ;
    .

<http://id.worldcat.org/fast/826066> # Ballets
    a schema:Intangible ;
    schema:name "Ballets"@en ;
    .

<http://viaf.org/viaf/12537074> # Marion Kant
    a schema:Person ;
    schema:familyName "Kant" ;
    schema:givenName "Marion" ;
    schema:name "Marion Kant" ;
    .

<http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780521539869>
    a schema:ProductModel ;
    schema:isbn "0521539862" ;
    schema:isbn "9780521539869" ;
    .

<http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780521832212>
    a schema:ProductModel ;
    schema:isbn "0521832217" ;
    schema:isbn "9780521832212" ;
    .

<http://www.worldcat.org/title/-/oclc/81453064>
    a genont:InformationResource, genont:ContentTypeGenericResource ;
    schema:about <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81453064> ; # The Cambridge companion to ballet
    schema:dateModified "2019-02-08" ;
    void:inDataset <http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat> ;
    .

<http://www.worldcat.org/title/-/oclc/81453064#PublicationEvent/cambridge_new_york_cambridge_university_press_2007>
    a schema:PublicationEvent ;
    schema:location <http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_York_City> ; # New York
    schema:location <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Place/cambridge> ; # Cambridge
    schema:organizer <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/66247601#Agent/cambridge_university_press> ; # Cambridge University Press
    schema:startDate "2007" ;
    .

Content-negotiable representations

Turtle (text/turtle)
JSON-LD (application/ld+json)
RDF/XML (application/rdf+xml)
N-TRIPLES (text/plain)
HTML+RDFa (text/html)

Please sign in to WorldCat

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

You:	Sign In \| Register \| My WorldCat \| My Lists \| My Watchlist \| My Reviews \| My Tags \| My Saved Searches
WorldCat:	Home \| About \| Help \| Search