Danse de la Folie


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A light-hearted romantic comedy of manners set in Jane Austen's Regency period as our two heroines step in time to the dance of love.




The Danse Macabre of Women


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The 'Danse Macabre' of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in an illuminated late-medieval manuscript. This book contains reproductions of each manuscript folio, a translation and explanatory chapters by Ann Tukey Harrison. Art historian Sandra L. Hindman also contributes a chapter.




Danse Macabre


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In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces a most human dilemma.




Danse


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La Danse


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Internationally acclaimed Photographer David Hamilton invites the viewer to share delicate moments in ballet. His images of young dancers capture the essence of grace at rest and poetry in motion. These tender photographic impressions are accompanied by musical masterpieces created especially for the art form. La Danse includes unpublished pictures of Rudolf Nureyev, the 20th century's greatest male dancer. Music CDs: The best of romantic ballet Classics, for example: Tchaikovskys Swan Lake?, Sleping Beauty? and other invitations to dance?, performed under the direction of G?nther Herbig, Herbert Kegel and Willi Boskovsky.




John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre


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This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.







Mixed Metaphors


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This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe in the course of the fifteenth century, from France to England, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Istria. Yet the Danse is hard to define because it mixes metaphors, such as dance, di ...




Orchestral Music Catalogue


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