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Joseph, Charles M
Stravinsky and Balanchine, 06/2002Book Chapter
TheApologie de la danse(1623) by François de Lauze constitutes the most substantive dance treatise of the seventeenth century. When Kirstein mailed a copy to Stravinsky, he sent the 1952 British reprint of the book, which had been greatly supplemented by its editor, Joan Wildeblood. The manual addressed the instruction, history, and function of several period dances, at least “the most advantageous” ones, as de Lauze concludes. But most important, Wildeblood offered detailed explanations of several popular dance patterns. Given Stravinsky’s immersion in the music of the Renaissance, Kirstein could not have sent the manual at a more propitious
