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Ballet eBooks

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  • Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise

    In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually result in the creation of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, the first decade of their collaborative efforts was anything but assured. Tracing the tangled histories of two of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Waltz from Swan Lake Easy Piano Sheet Music

    Easy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!Quality Custom Made Original Sheet Music Arrangements ... Read more

    $1.20 USD

  • Sleeping Beauty Waltz Easy Violin Sheet Music

    Easy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!Quality Custom Made Original Sheet Music Arrangements ... Read more

    $1.20 USD

  • Viaje a Través De La Historia De La Danza

    JOS RAFAEL VILAR VIAJE A TRAVS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA Este pequeo libro surgi de la falta de un texto, accesible y en castellano, para que mis alumnos de historia de la danza pudieran ampliar sus conocimientos, por lo que ste podr servir a muchos lectores, artistas en formacin o profesionales o slo nefitos con inters en este hermoso arte, para conocer y disfrutarlo mejor, porque cuando se ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Celestial Bodies

    How to Look at Ballet

    by Laura Jacobs ...
    A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The History Of Dance - Ballet

    by Lilly Grove ...
    This vintage book is a fascinating treatise on ballet. It delves into the colourful history of ballet in ancient societies and explores its development throughout the ages from the dances of the Egyptians to modern opera. “The History Of Dance - Ballet” is highly recommended for those with an interest in the evolution of the dance and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Elementary Piano Sheet Music

    Elementary Piano ArrangementEasy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!Quality Custom Made Original Sheet Music Arrangements ... Read more

    $1.20 USD

  • Balanchine & the Lost Muse

    Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

    Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ballet Music for Exercises 1

    Original Musicscores to the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 1", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an iPad or Kindle, to read music whilst playing an Instrument. Klaus Bruengel is a professional composer and arranger, working for the label "Scores And Parts". ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's most widely performed scores, and the Martha Graham Dance Company still treats it as a signature work. Over the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Odette's Dream: The Little Girl Who Danced Against All Odds

    Once upon a time, there was a curious and beautiful little girl named Odette. She dreamt of becoming a professional ballerina and even though her parents could not afford to pay her for ballet classes. Odette discovered that with hard work and determination, anything is possible! ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • El lago de los cisnes

    Ballet

    Basado en el ballet de Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, este cuento reúne todos los elementos para que una historia de amor sea inolvidable: engaño, traición, alguien que se interpone entre los amantes y, finalmente, un sacrificio trágico pero esperanzador. El testimonio de Marcela Goicoechea, ex primera bailarina del Ballet de Santiago, nos habla de los desafíos artísticos que le significó interpretar a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballet Music

    A Handbook

    Series series Music Finders
    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 ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Catherine Littlefield

    A Life in Dance

    by Sharon Skeel ...
    While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of Ballet, from which Balanchine drew the nucleus for his School of American Ballet, Catherine Littlefield (1905-51) and her oeuvre were in many ways emblematic of the full representation of dance throughout entertainments of the first half of the 20th ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Lamb at the Altar

    The Story of a Dance

    by Deborah Hay ...
    "The intention of my work is to dislodge assumptions about the fixity of the three-dimensional body."—Deborah HayHer movements are uncharacteristic, her words subversive, her dances unlike anything done before—and this is the story of how it all works. A founding member of the famed Judson Dance Theater and a past performer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Deborah Hay is well known for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Classic FM Handy Guide: Ballet

    by Tim Lihoreau ...
    Series series Classic FM Handy Guides
    From its early inception at the French court to modern-day developments and interpretations, ballet has long had a popular following. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history, performers, composers and music, highlighting the very best ballets and the stand-out tracks that should feature in the collection of any aficionado. Classic FM's Handy Guides are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agnes de Mille

    Telling Stories in Broadway Dance

    Series series Broadway Legacies
    This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and lucrative Broadway works. The other three shows exemplify aspects of her legacy that have not been fully ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Flame Flower

    A Ballet

    Russian born artist Michael Chepourkoff wrote a script for a ballet, Flame Flower, while he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, California. He received his Master of Arts degree in art in May, 1933. He went on to become an active part of San Francisco's art scene in the 1930's and 1940's. Flame Flower was inspired by Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." Chepourkoff ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart - Melomorphosen: Früchte der Musikmeditation, sichtbar gemachte Informationsmatrix ausgewählter Musikstücke, Gestaltwerkzeuge für Musikhörer; ohne Verwendung von Noten/Partituren

    Ein Arbeitsbuch für Hörer

    Series Book 1 - Melomorphosen
    Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse. Es enthält die Früchte meiner Mozart-Forschung aus fast 40 Jahren für das Ganzkörperlauschen, wie ich es nenne. Beliebte und berühmte, kleine und große Stücke des Komponisten sind hier aufgeführt. Nach einer kurzen Hinführung und Einstimmung folgt zu dem jeweiligen Musikstück eine handschriftliche Analyse, ... Read more

    $156.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LEONARD BERNSTEIN

    The Biography, Career, Relationships, and Legacy of One of the Most Versatile American Conductor and Composer Who Reinvented Classical Music.

    In the history of classical music, few figures have left as profound an imprint as Leonard Bernstein, an iconic American conductor and composer. Bernstein's life, spanning from his birth on August 25, 1918, to his passing on October 14, 1990, encapsulates an era of musical innovation and social change. Renowned for his charismatic podium presence, Bernstein held pivotal roles with prestigious ... Read more

    $9.21 USD

  • Reworking the Ballet

    Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

    Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets.In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their source material, turning ballet from a classical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Art of Ballet Accompaniment

    A Comprehensive Guide

    The Art of Ballet Accompaniment: A Comprehensive Guide addresses every imaginable topic and challenge that a ballet accompanist—whether a novice or a more experienced practitioner—might encounter.More than just a facile anthology of accessible music, this inclusive guide details all aspects of playing for ballet, including a complete manual for editing piano literature to accompany ballet ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Recorder For Beginners: Practical Music Guide To Learn How To Play The Recorder Notes And Tunes, Including Easy Popular Songs

    by Ben Newman ...
    Are you looking for a book for beginners that teach you in a fun way how to play the recorder instrument and at the same time that it is a songbook with the best songs for beginners to practice?If you're struggling to get started playing the recorder and would like to learn an effective way to memorize, play and combine notes to make music that tug at the heartstrings, then this guide is for you ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing Leonard Bernstein

    A Listener's Companion

    Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus