Add to ORKGCommercial ballrooms appear all over Great Britain in the course of the 18th century. They represent a new type of contact zones enhancing the cultural mobility of new urban elites. As such they are a unknown phenomenon for the Southern Netherlands before 1815. Buildings solely dedicated to musical leisure remained scarce until the 1850ies. Most cities only disposed of one baroque style theater typically seating a few hundred, also used for social dancing during the ball season. In Antwerp, the opera house exploited a monopoly on public balls just like it's Parisian counterpart, but until 1810. As a consequence of this peculiar absence of free enterpreneurship, the first commercial concert- and ballroom was erected in Antwerp only in 1813. ...
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This presentation addresses three social dance forms in which France’s spasmodic transformation from...
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Commercial ballrooms appear all over Great Britain in the course of the 18th century. They represent...
The first decade-and-a-half of the nineteenth century witnessed the unusually-speedy dissemination o...
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During the first decade of the 19th century a remarkable pair of dances came into fashion in contine...
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Many eyewitnesses mention the emergence of a new style of ceremonial dances performed at the Napoleo...
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The story about the origin of many a popular ballroom dance - like the Polka (Paris) or the Tango (...
The engagement of landed elite women with dance music in the early nineteenth century and the contri...
A number of private societies and clubs flourished in Oporto in the 19th Century, whose aim was to e...
Eighteenth-century London was a centre of diverse entertainments, and music played a vital role in a...
This presentation addresses three social dance forms in which France’s spasmodic transformation from...
At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the Champs-Élysées were open t...
Commercial ballrooms appear all over Great Britain in the course of the 18th century. They represent...
The first decade-and-a-half of the nineteenth century witnessed the unusually-speedy dissemination o...
When, determined to end Napoleon's advance, the allies invaded the territory now known as Belgium, t...
During the first decade of the 19th century a remarkable pair of dances came into fashion in contine...
Today the waltz and the quadrille are omnipresent in most parts of the world. This wasn’t always so....
Many eyewitnesses mention the emergence of a new style of ceremonial dances performed at the Napoleo...
Napoleon’s Qaudrille Events Compared Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the quadrilles organized...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the arrival of class society is expressed in the social ...
This book focuses on the socio-cultural and economic circumstances in which the Viennese waltz devel...
The story about the origin of many a popular ballroom dance - like the Polka (Paris) or the Tango (...
The engagement of landed elite women with dance music in the early nineteenth century and the contri...
A number of private societies and clubs flourished in Oporto in the 19th Century, whose aim was to e...
Eighteenth-century London was a centre of diverse entertainments, and music played a vital role in a...
This presentation addresses three social dance forms in which France’s spasmodic transformation from...
At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the Champs-Élysées were open t...