Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives

Contents

• Introduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark;
• Part I . Conceptual Studies:
• 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt;
• 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden;
• 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort;
• 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy;
• Part II . Case Histories:
• 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey;
• 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber;
• 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero;
• Part III : Critical Readings:
• 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet - once again - under analysis David J. Code;
• 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr;
• 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.