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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The context. Setting the scene: Morris's career as musical journey
• Towards performance: process and practice
• Choreomusical history...and the question of 'music visualization'
• Watching and listening to dance. A framework for analysis
• The dances. Period 1: 1980-1988. Early dances
• Period 2 (Brussels): 1988-1991. L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato: from Milton to Morris, via Handel and Blake
• Dido and Aeneas as danced opera
• Still abroad: The hard nut and other dances
• Period 3: 1992-2014. Big stories: operas and 'ballets'
• Forms of narrative: three experiments
• Going west: Morris meets Lou Harrison
• Big forms
• Mozart dances: an evening of big forms
• Present into future
• Chronology of works by Mark Morris 1971-2014.

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Stephanie , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mark Morris: musician--choreographer [by Jordan, S.]

Subjects:

Morris, Mark, 1956-

Choreographers — United States — Biography

Choreographers

United States

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes chronology of Mark Morris's work.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-531) and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 543 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

GV1785.M635 J6 2015

ISBNs:

1852731753
9781852731755 (hardback)

OCLC Numbers:

920862299