Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.
Contents:
Cultural and critical backdrop -- Childhood fantasy and exoticism : Ma Mère l'Oye and L'Enfant -- Greekness and myth in Daphnis et Chloé -- Essays on the waltz I : Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs (Valses nobles) -- Essays on the waltz II : La Valse and epilogue -- Neoclassical divertissements : Le Tombeau de Couperin and 'fanfare' from L'Eventail de Jeanne -- Spain, machines and sexuality : Boléro -- 'Danse générale' : Ravel's oeuvre as ballet.
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