Background
Ward, John Milton was born on July 6, 1917 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John Milton and Maud (Van Alstyne) Ward.
(For the second catalogue of materials from the John Milto...)
For the second catalogue of materials from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Professor Ward has selected over 2,100 items relating to Italian ballet from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Italian Ballet 1637-1977 includes published materials (printed scores, librettos, treatises on ballet) as well as hundreds of manuscript scores (many autograph), letters, contracts, choreographic notes, and costume and set designs. Like its predecessor The King's Theatre Collection, Italian Ballet 1637-1977 was designed to be a useful scholarly resource, with descriptive citations for each ballet and detailed indexes for titles, choreographers, composers, and theaters. Arranged chronologically, Italian Ballet 1637-1977 allows the researcher to follow the development of Italian ballet from unnamed comic dances performed between the acts of eighteenth-century opera to the large-scale nineteenth-century ballets choreographed by Antonio Pallerini and Luigi Manzotti. The catalogue is meant not only as a reference to the collection at Harvard, but also as an entryway for scholars to delve into this unexplored area of musicology and dance history.
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This book is a scholarly edition of a mid-sixteenth-century manuscript in the Osborn collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale. The manuscript comprises an important and previously unpublished collection of music for lute, gittern, and guitar, written in tablature. John M. Ward has carefully transcribed this music into modern notation and provided a substantial introduction and commentary. Of obvious interest to lutenists, to whom a valuable body of music is now available, the book also provides fascinating insights into the development of popular verse and music, particularly in connection with the use of ballad tunes.
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The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music in an essential way, such as ballet, opera, social dance, pantomime, operetta, and burlesque. With over 1,400 entries and 33 illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.
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(The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Har...)
The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music and dance in an essential way. The revised and expanded edition of The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 has an additional 200 entries, 20 new illustrations, and several new indexes. With over 1,600 entries and 40 color illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.
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Features "A Dowland Miscellany" by John M. Ward: Biography, Music, Index, Appendices, Addenda.
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Ward, John Milton was born on July 6, 1917 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John Milton and Maud (Van Alstyne) Ward.
Bachelor, San Francisco State College, 1941. Master of Music, University Washington, Seattle, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1953.
A.M. (honorary), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955.
Instructor literature and fine arts, Michigan State University, 1947-1953; assistant, later associate professor music, University of Illinois, 1953-1955; associate professor music, Harvard University, 1955-1958; professor, department chairman, Harvard University, 1958-1962; William Powell Mason professor, Harvard University, 1961-1985; William Powell Mason professor emeritus, Harvard University, since 1985.
( The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the ...)
(The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Har...)
(For the second catalogue of materials from the John Milto...)
(This book is a scholarly edition of a mid-sixteenth-centu...)
(Features "A Dowland Miscellany" by John M. Ward: Biograph...)
(1977 first edition. Lute Society of America. octavo wraps...)
Chairman board directors Laura Boulton Foundation. Member of advisory board London Entertainment, 1660-1800. Honorary curator music and dance Harvard Theatre Collection.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Musicol. Society (honorary), International Musicological Society, International Council for Traditional Music, Society Ethnomusicology, Royal Museum Association (honorary foreign member), Lute Society (honorary).
Married Ruth Marie Neils, January 9, 1945.