Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pendragon Pr, Hillsdale, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781576470435ISBN:1576470431
Description: As New. Softcovers. AS NEW, UNUSED COPY. 157 pps. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with musical examples. Quite scarce. No. 12 in the Monographs in Musicality series. read more
Description: The Waltz as Sex, Steps, and Sound. At the beginning of the 19th century the waltz brought men and women face-to-face, dancing tightly embraced and staring into each other's eyes, a position that provoked a great deal of anxiety in many circles-bishops of Austria signed decrees against waltzing, France banned it at court, and even Leo XII sought to suppress the waltz by papal decree. Nevertheless, composers wrote waltzes for the ballrooms, and the new bourgeoisie of Europe enjoyed the freedom ... read more
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