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This book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms—theory and practice—during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. France was the source of works on notation, choreography, and repertoire that dominated European dance practice until the 1780s. While these French inventions were welcomed and used in Germany, German dance writers responded by producing an important body of work on dance theory. This book examines consequences in Germany of this asymmetrical confrontation of dance perspectives. Between 1703 and 1717 in Germany, a coherent theory of dance was postulated that called itself dance theory, comprehended why it was a theory, and clearly, ration...
"This book began in 2014 as an introduction to the book I was then writing about a small group of dance theorists-five Germans and an Englishman-and their treatises published between 1703 and 1721: obviously a very narrow conspectus in subject and years. The aim of the introduction was to place these largely ignored writers (epecially the Germans) in a broad historical context that would demonstrate how essential and pivotal they were. As I read further in dance theory I found more and more sources on the subject that turned out to be far more interesting and complex than I had originally imagined. The introduction kept getting longer, until it became an albatross on the book's actual text, ...
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Consists of four sections with distinctive titles: Buchhandels-Adressbuch für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (varies slightly), Adressbuch des Oesterreichischen Buch-, Kunst-, Musikalien- und Zeitschriftenhandels, Schweizer Buchhandel-Adressbuch, Verzeichnis des ausländiscen Buchhandels, 1954, and Verzeichnis des Buchhandels anderer Länder, 1955-1974/75.
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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.