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201023739New York City NY: Random House 2010. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket. New York City NY: Random House 2010. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 645 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the best books on ballet ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jennifer Homans' "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet". Her deeply moving history of ballet. For Homans ballet is a metaphor for art itself. Ballet is not dance. Anyone can dance which is about life's vitality. Ballet demands the exact mediated opposite: Precision rigor purity. In a word art. Ballet - art - is about transcendence: The high leap we identify with ballet is transcendence itself about a higher and exalted state of being that we often call grace. "Grace" is now undervalued and rarely invoked in both demotic and hieratic discourse. There is no grace and a lot of vulgarity for example in contemporary culture as well as Ivory Tower academe. Like all great histories "Apollo's Angels" makes a larger point: A culture that does not have a notion of transcendence is an inferior one and will not have an enduring legacy. Often described as "Dionysian" "Le Sacre du Printemps" "The Rite of Spring" the sublime Nijinsky/Stravinsky collaboration that radically changed the course of ballet is instead "Apollonian" the re-presentation of primitive trance-ritual through ballet's highly formalized movements steps and gestures. The virgin sacrifice in "Le Sacre du Printemps" is the primal version of the sacrifice in "Swan Lake" and countless other ballets that the prima ballerina-heroine makes. An absolute "must-have" title for Jennifer Homans and ballet aficionado/collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws are subsequent printings or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Selected as one of the Ten Best Books of 2010 by The New York Times. One of the most brilliant critic/writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1400060605. Random House hardcover
2001Q-0851623182Boosey & Hawkes 2001-07-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Boosey & Hawkes paperback
2004Q-0851622003Boosey & Hawkes 2004-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Boosey & Hawkes paperback
2006Q-048644953XDover Publications 2006-02-09. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
2004DADAX0851622135Boosey & Hawkes 2004-06-01. paperback. New. 9.00x0.81x12.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Boosey & Hawkes paperback
2010160914New York: Random House 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover
200129873AB2001. Holland Sony Classical Music 2001. CD Size. Booklet and 9 CD's. Original Hardcover. Besides some minor foxing to the booklet and box this rare set of 9 CD's is in excellent condition. Sony Classical. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky 17 June O.S. 5 June 1882 6 April 1971 was a Russian composer pianist and conductor later of French from 1934 and American from 1945 citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird 1910 Petrushka 1911 and The Rite of Spring 1913. The last transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His "Russian phase" which continued with works such as Renard L'Histoire du soldat and Les noces was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassicism. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms concerto grosso fugue and symphony and drew from earlier styles especially those of the 18th century. In the 1950s Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form and instrumentation. Wikipedia hardcover
2012Q-0486406237Dover Publications 2012-07-17. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
2022x-0520371410Univ of California Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 168 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Univ of California Pr hardcover
2004Q-0851622135Boosey & Hawkes 2004-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Boosey & Hawkes paperback
2023__178454809XBOOSEY 2023. New. 368 pages. 8.11x0.87x11.57 inches. BOOSEY unknown
200729874AB2007. Holland Sony Classical Music 2007. CD Size. Booklet and 22 CD's. Original Hardcover Cardboard-Box. Besides some minor bumping to the box this rare set of 22 CD's is in excellent condition. Sony Classical. Stravinsky dirigiert Stravinsky - auf 22 CDs dokumentiert diese Edition zum Sonderpreis ein in der Musikgeschichte einmaliges Ereignis: eine umfassende authentische Interpretation der eigenen Werke durch einen Komponisten selbst. So kann diese Edition ein Schlüssel zum Verstehen von Igor Strawinskys musikalischem Schaffen werden. Die frühesten Aufnahmen stammen aus den dreißiger Jahren die letzten Einspielungen wurden da Stravinsky selbst nicht mehr dazu in der Lage war unter seiner Aufsicht von Robert Craft dirigiert der Jahrzehnte mit ihm musikalisch zusammengearbeitet hatte. Um das Komponisten-Porträt auch im Bereich Klaviermusik und Kammermusik abzurunden wurde die Edition zusätzlich mit Einspielungen anderer renommierter Künstler ergänzt. Die 22CD-Box enthält ein Booklet mit einem dreisprachigen Einführungstext und sämtlichen Produktionsangaben. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky 17 June O.S. 5 June 1882 6 April 1971 was a Russian composer pianist and conductor later of French from 1934 and American from 1945 citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird 1910 Petrushka 1911 and The Rite of Spring 1913. The last transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His "Russian phase" which continued with works such as Renard L'Histoire du soldat and Les noces was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassicism. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms concerto grosso fugue and symphony and drew from earlier styles especially those of the 18th century. In the 1950s Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form and instrumentation. Wikipedia hardcover
