Guide to the Nozze Slave Dance Notation and Costume Design Drawings MS.P.057
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Title: Nozze Slave dance notation and costume design drawings
Creator:
Coppini, Cesare
Identifier/Call Number: MS.P.057
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(2 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1895
Abstract: This collection comprises two groups of
material documenting work on a ballet in one act,
Nozze Slave:
divertimento danzante in un atti,
(
Slave wedding: a ballet in
one act
), which appears to have been staged by Cesare Coppini at La Scala, an
opera house in Milan, on January 22, 1895. The first group includes two manuscripts relating
to the choreography of the ballet by Emilio Graeb, to music by P. Hertel. One is a
hand-written and illustrated choreographic synopsis, possibly fragmentary, reproduced and
signed by Coppini, showing the placement of dancers in fifteen scenes. The other is a
listing of the order of the dances written in Coppini's hand. The second group includes
thirteen costume drawings from the ballet by Luigi Zamperoni, drawn in ink on tracing paper
and mounted on stiff backing, annotated in black and red ink, and featuring costumes for the
major dances.
Language of Material:
English .
Collection open for research.
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Acquired, 2002.
Processed by Karen Rosen, 2004.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection comprises two groups of material documenting work on a ballet in one act,
Nozze slave: divertimento danzante in un atti, (
Slave wedding: a ballet in one act), which appears to have been
staged by Cesare Coppini at La Scala, an opera house in Milan, on January 22, 1895. The
first group includes two manuscripts relating to the choreography of the ballet by Emilio
Graeb, to music by P. Hertel. One is a hand-written and illustrated choreographic synopsis,
possibly fragmentary, reproduced and signed by Coppini, showing the placement of dancers in
fifteen scenes. The other is a listing of the order of the dances written in Coppini's hand.
The second group includes thirteen costume drawings from the ballet by Luigi Zamperoni,
drawn in ink on tracing paper and mounted on stiff backing, annotated in black and red ink,
and featuring costumes for the major dances.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Costume design -- Italy
Nozze slave (Choreographic work: Graeb) -- Archives.
Dance notation -- Italy -- 19th century.
Costume design drawings -- Italy -- 19th century.
Zamperoni, Luigi
Graeb, Emilio
Hertel, Peter Ludwig
box FB-064, folder 5
box FB-064, folder 6
box FB-064, folder 5
Cover in which materials were stored 1895