Preface
Prologue
- Medieval Music for Movement
- Castles and Countryside
- Hildegard's Processionals
- The Play of Daniel
- Written Estampies
- Le Jeu de Robin et Marion
- Renaissance Celebrations
- Music for Court and Rural Dancing
- Le Ballet Comique de la Reine
- Baroque Opera-Ballets
- Lully and the Sun King
- Rameau's Indians
- Suite Yourself
- Dance-Inspired Music for Listeners
- Variations for English Virginals
- Renaissance and Baroque Ballroom Dances
- Bach's Suites
- Handel, Foreign Favorite of Royals
- Orpheus through the Centuries
- The Myth—Ancient
- Monteverdi—Baroque
- Gluck—Classical
- A Satirical Side Trip
- Stravinsky—Modern
- Peasants, Aristocrats, and Statues
- La Fille mal gardée
- Mozart's Little Nothings
- Noverre's Vision
- Beethoven's Prometheus
- Waltzing in Time
- Mountainsides to Wine Gardens
- Beer Gardens to Ballrooms
- Ballrooms to Ballet Stages
- Waltz Types
- Music for Women in White
- La Sylphide
- Les Sylphides
- Giselle
- Swan Lake
- The Dying Swan
- Exotic Imports
- Le Corsaire
- La Bayadère
- Polovtsian Dances
- Schéhérazade
- Excelsior
- Delibes
- The Composer
- Coppélia
- Sylvia
- The Paris Opera Ballet
- Sleeping Beauty
- Tchaikovsky's Masterpiece
- Petipa and His Composers
- Diaghilev's Sleeping Princess
- Nureyev and Classical Tradition
- Stravinsky's Russian Stories
- Firebird
- Petrouchka
- Le Sacre du Printemps
- Les Noces
- Diaghilev's Modish Moderns
- The Impresario
- Early Collaborators
- Nijinsky and Debussy
- Fokine and Ravel
- A Spectrum of Other Dances
- Evocations of Spain
- Boléro
- Don Quixote
- Three-Cornered Hat
- A Spanish Composer in America
- Apollo to Agon
- The Young God Grows Up
- Balanchine's Procedures
- Jeu de Cartes
- Agon
- The Stravinsky Festivals
- Romeos and Juliets
- Shakespeare's Play
- Gounod's Opera
- Tchaikovsky's Overture
- Lambert's Ballet
- Prokofiev's Ballet
- Bernstein's Broadway Show
- Romeo Rocks
- For the Very Young
- The Toy Box
- Circus Elephants and Children
- Fanfare
- Tales of Beatrix Potter
- Whipped Cream
- Nutcrackers Everywhere
- Dancin' Music for Children
After-words!
- Relating Past and Present
- Challenges for Contemporary Conductors
- Instrumentalists in the Pits
- The International Guild of Musicians in Dance
- Women Collaborators in Modern Times
- Exploring Professional Opportunities
- Drawing from Widening Traditions
- World Ballet Day
- Ballet in Time of War
Chronology
Annotated Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Author
