> Wow. This is robust, big-picture, grand-narrative stuff.
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> When exactly did music's liberation from dance occur?
Hahaha!!
And what does music do? It turns right around and bites back. I think the operative terms for Rimsky, and Stravinsky even, wasn't choreographer, but ballet-master:
"I'm done with my score, now have that danced for me, please!"
Joan Peyser remarked that the richest composers of the 20th century were the ones that wrote for the ballet.
C.