Italian Renaissance-Lise Pierre

·       Ballet began in the Italian Renaissance courts in the 15^th century before becoming concert dance in France.

Cardinal Mazarin 

       Italian Renaissance Opera/Ballet

§  Preformed at weddings/ banquets

§  Domencio de Piancenza- one of the first dancing masters

§  Opera/concert music originated in Italy; that is where the musical terms (ex: crescendo etc) are in the Italian language

§  Cardinal (Position in the Church; wore all red, like the bird) Mazarin took an interest in the arts as well Catherine de’ Medici

§  Mazarin served as the Region (or advisor) to King Louis XIV because he was only 3 at the time when King Louis the 13^th died and it came his turn to be King.

Ballet Period	Type of Music	Composer	Ballet	Time Period
Renaissance Opera	Baroque Ballet	1Balthazar de Beaujoyeux	Le Ballet Comique de la Reine	1300-1600
King Louis Codification of Ballet	French Baroque Ballet	Jean Baptiste Lully	Ballet de la Nuit	1600-1700s
Romantic Ballet	Modernism Ballet	Adolphe Adam	Giselle	Late 1700s
Classical Ballet	Classical Ballet	Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro/Don Giovanni/Les Petits Riens	1830-1870