Ballet Music: A Handbook

This invaluable compendium takes as its starting point the need for a comparable ballet book to Orchestral Music: A Handbook, now in its fourth edition (Daniels 2005) (printed and online). As much as Daniels’ book has become the orchestral librarian’s “bible”, orchestral librarians of ballet companies need a guidebook to the repertoire and an introduction to the unique terminology and requirements of this particular performance medium. Naughtin set out to provide such a guide and has produced a work which is of as much relevance to other workers in the ballet world, as to the orchestral librarians for...