Naples, Capital of Dance: The ‘feste di ballo' Tradition in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author:   Anthony R. DelDonna (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009440271


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   17 April 2025
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Naples, Capital of Dance: The ‘feste di ballo' Tradition in the Long Eighteenth Century


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Author:   Anthony R. DelDonna (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9781009440271


ISBN 10:   1009440276
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   17 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of figures; List of tables; List of music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Naples: networks of culture; 1. Celebratory balls in the Kingdom of Naples; 2. The politics of place and spheres of power; 3. Seasons of Feste: 1737 and 1747; 4. The dance treatise in the Age of Reason; 5. Seasons of splendor: from the capital city to the Reggia di Caserta; 6. A return to the capital; 7. Dietro le quinte e tra le pagine: music, musicians, and Maestri di ballo; 8. The Neapolitan Feste di Ballo as (historical) soundscape; Bibliography; Index.

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Anthony R. DelDonna is Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University. He is the author of Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples: Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture (Cambridge, 2021) and Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (2012).

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