Discusses Meyerbeer's leadership in creating a nineteenth-century ballet music style. Includes musical examples. The author also comments on Verdi's debt to dance music, and on Tchaikovsky, including his music for Swan lake.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references.
Author
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning.
Title
Meyerbeer and ballet music of the nineteenth-century : some issues of influence with reference to Robert le Diable.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Running title
Meyerbeer and nineteenth-century ballet.
Found in:
Dance chronicle. New York. v. 21, no. 3 (1998), p. 389-410. ill.