Item Detail
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Balanchine, George
Mason, Francis -
101 stories of the great ballets
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Book
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Garden City, N.Y.
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1975
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Dolphin Books
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xiv, 541 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Also copyright in 1954, 1968
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0385033982; 9780385033985
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Ballets--Stories, plots, etc.
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Ballets; Dances; Ballet Plots
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ML 95 .B3 1975
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Balanchine, George, and Francis Mason. 101 Stories of the Great Ballets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1975.
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For those looking for plot summaries of ballets. Also gives general information on the first performance of the ballet.
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Contains 101 ballet stories. Fifty are in the standard repertory that is performed regularly. The remaining selections were newer ballets in 1975.
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Ballets are listed in alphabetical order. For each ballet the story is described and information about the ballet is given, such as the composer, choreographer, scenery, key performers, and location of the first performance of the ballet. There is also an index listing composers and ballets included in the text.
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Only ballets from prior to 1975 are listed.
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BYU Mus Ref
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2653