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Books: Music and dance



Cover imageThe ballets of Maurice Ravel.

Author: Mawer, Deborah

Published: 2006

Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors,... [full description]

Hardback [4723-HB] £ 55.00 Add to order


Cover imageDance and music, a guide to dance accompaniment for musicians and dance teachers.

Author: Cavalli, Harriet

Published: 2001

The definitive book on accompanying for dance. One of the most comprehensive books to acknowledge the link between... [full description]

Paperback [1149-PB] £ 22.50 Add to order


Cover imageEar training for the body, a dancer's guide to music.

Author: Teck, Katherine

Published: 1994

Music approached from the dancer's viewpoint. It offers a two-part exploration of music as it relates to dance,... [full description]

Paperback [1773-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageMalcolm Williamson: a mischievous muse.

Author: Meredith, Anthony

Published: 2007

A biography of the former Master of the Queen's Music, the Australian born composer Malcolm Williamson, who worked with... [full description]

Hardback [5232-HB] £ 19.95 Add to order


Cover imageMinor ballet composers: biographical sketches.

Author: Schueneman, Bruce & William E Studwell

Published: 1997

Brief biographies of sixty-six 'underappreciated yet significant contributors to the body of western ballet music',... [full description]

Hardback [5075-HB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Movement to music.

Author: Teck, Katherine

Published: 1990

The artistic collaboration in the studio between dance teachers, musicians, and dancers.

Hardback [1775-HB] £ 41.99 Add to order


Cover imageMoving music.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2000

An in depth discussion of the relationships between music and ballet. Part 1 contains a broad overview of different... [full description]

Paperback [2228-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Music for the dance.

Author: Teck, Katherine

Published: 1990

How choreographers choose music for ballets, how conductors accomodate the needs of dancers, what dancers need to know... [full description]

Hardback [1777-HB] £ 47.95 Add to order


Read music from scratch, a complete guide to reading music for beginners.

Author: Sissons, Neil

Published: 2001

A guide to reading music which can be used by anyone who wants to understand more about what written music means. The... [full description]

Paperback [2229-PB] £ 12.50 Add to order


Cover imageRhythmic subjects: uses of energy in the dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham.

Author: Reynolds, Dee

Published: 2007

Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply 'the body', but energy as it is used and... [full description]

Paperback [4905-PB] £ 20.00 Add to order


Rhythmic training for dancers.

Author: Kaplan, Robert

Published: 2002

This book, which includes a CD-ROM, helps dancers develop a better understanding of musical time and phrasing, two... [full description]

Paperback [1356-PB] £ 37.95 Add to order


Cover imageStravinsky and Balanchine, the journey of invention.

Author: Joseph, Charles M

Published: 2002

Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created... [full description]

Hardback [1416-HB] £ 35.00 Add to order


Cover imageStravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie

Published: 2007

More than any other twentieth-century composer, Igor Stravinsky is associated in the popular imagination with dance:... [full description]

Hardback [5293-HB] £ 50.00 Add to order


Cover imageStravinsky: the second exile, France and America 1934 - 1971.

Author: Walsh, Stephen

Published: 2006

In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and regarded by many as the most important... [full description]

Hardback [4772-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Tchaikovsky's ballets.

Author: Wiley, Roland John

Published: 1985

A detailed analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker, combined with descriptions of the... [full description]

Paperback [1983-PB] £ 33.00 Add to order


Twentieth-Century American music for dance, a bibliography.

Author: Emerson, Isabelle

Published: 1996

A listing of works specifically created for concert dance by American composers, arranged in alphabetical order of... [full description]

Hardback [2056-HB] £ 65.00 Add to order


Cover imageWritings on ballet and music.

Author: Lopukhov, Fedor

Published: 2002

Although little known in the West, Fedor Lopukhov was a leading figure in Russia's dance world for more than sixty... [full description]

Paperback [0194-PB] £ 19.95 Add to order



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