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The Journal of DHDS      ISSN 0261-0965

Editor: David Parsons

Volume 4 Contents

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Volume 4, Number 1, 2004

The Banqueting House, Whitehall: a site specific to dance

Anne Daye, pp 3-22. Download pdf

'Corona', a bassa danza ala fila by Domenico

David Wilson, pp 23-28. Download pdf

Language in fifteenth-century Italian dance descriptions

David Wilson, pp 29-32. Download pdf

Book Reviews

The Almain in Britain, c.1549 - c.1675: a dance manual from manuscript sources by Ian Payne, reviewed by David Wilson, pp 33-35.

The Dancing Master by Pierre Rameau, translated by Cyril Beaumont, reviewed by Jennifer Thorp, p 35.

Letters on Dancing and Ballets by Jean-Georges Noverre, translated by Cyril Beaumont, reviewed by Moria Goff, p 36.

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Volume 4, Number 2, 2012

Desnoyer, Charmer of the Georgian Age

Moira Goff, pp 3-10 Download pdf

The 'Passacaille of Armide' Revisited: Rhetorical Aspects of Quinault's / Lully's tragédie en musique

Kimiko Okamoto, pp 11-18 Download pdf

'The power of his commanding trident': Tethys Festival as royal policy

Anne Daye, pp 19-28 Download pdf

Choreography and Meaning in Renaissance Danced Spectacles: A Catalyst for Discussion

Jennifer Nevile, pp 29-33 Download pdf

Book reviews

Marina Grut, Royal Swedish Ballet: History from 1592 to 1962. (Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 2007)
Review by Jennifer Thorp (pdf)

Stephanie Schroedter, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Giles Bennett (eds), Barocktanz: La Danse baroque: Baroque Dance and the Transfer of Culture between France and Germany around 1700, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2008)
Review by Jennifer Thorp (pdf)

Kate Van Winkle Keller, Dance and its Music in America, Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, New York. 2007
Review by Chrystelle Bond (pdf)

Marsh, Maggie. Mr Noverre's Academy: A Georgian Dancing Master in Norwich, Norwich Early Dance Group/Running Angel, Norwich 2005
Review by Moira Goff (pdf)

Tilden Russell and Dominique Bourassa. The Menuet de la Cour. Terpsichore. Tanzhistorische Studien. Band 4. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2007
Review by Moira Goff (pdf)

Rodreguez King-Dorset, Black Dance in London, 1730 - 1850. McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, 2008.
Alexandra Carter, Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005.
Reviews by Anne Daye (pdf)

Nevile, J. (editor) Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2008.
Burden, M. & Thorp, J. (editors) Ballet de la Nuit. Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2009
Reviews by Anne Daye (pdf)

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