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A ballet des nations for English audiences: Europe's revels for the peace of Ryswick (1697)
- Early Music
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 35, Number 3, August 2007
- pp. 419-433
- Article
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Abstract
The ballets des nations set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and André Campra in Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) and L' Europe galante (1697) are probably the most famous 17th-century representations of national characters through music and dance. A less well-known work, Europe's revels for the peace of Ryswick, provides important clues as to how national characters were danced on-stage and how they might be interpreted in contemporary London by English audiences.
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