Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) - Hardcover

Dance played a major role in all French Baroque theatrical entertainments. Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance, largely because it has survived complete in all its components - choreography, music, and text - and also because it uses a previously unknown dance notation system. This book reproduces the entire manuscript of the ballet and provides a comprehensive study of the work itself and of the circumstances in which it was created and performed.