'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime – the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey

• Introduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark; Part I. Conceptual Studies: 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt; 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden; 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort; 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy; Part II. Case Histories: 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey; 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber; 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero; Part III: Critical Readings: 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet – once again – under analysis David J. Code; 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr; 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.

'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime – the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey

• Introduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark; Part I. Conceptual Studies: 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt; 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden; 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort; 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy; Part II. Case Histories: 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey; 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber; 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero; Part III: Critical Readings: 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet – once again – under analysis David J. Code; 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr; 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.

'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime – the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey

• Introduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark; Part I. Conceptual Studies: 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt; 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden; 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort; 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy; Part II. Case Histories: 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey; 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber; 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero; Part III: Critical Readings: 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet – once again – under analysis David J. Code; 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr; 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.