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Leonard Bernstein: An American Renaissance Musician (Dance & Music)
Leonard Bernstein An American Renaissance Musician - Dance & Music Author:Peter Gradenwitz David Buch's informative volume is the first modern study, edition, and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour, 1575-1651. These full scores are especially important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The excepti... more »on here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600, a Ballet a cheval of 1615, a selection of miscellaneous Entrees from several ballets prepared for the Concert a Louis XIII par les Viollons et lest 12 Grands hautbois of 1627, and Philidor's five-part reading of seventeen Entrees from the Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus of 1651.« less