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    Bergamask, bergomask, bergamesca, or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy), is a dance and associated melody and chord progression. It...
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    Bouffon (English originally from French: "farceur", "comique", “Donovan”, "jester") is a modern French theater term to describe a specific style of performance...
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  • The Querelle des Bouffons ("Quarrel of the Comic Actors"), also known as the Guerre des Bouffons ("War of the Comic Actors"), was the name given to a...
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    Opera buffa (redirect from Opera bouffon)
    opera buffa), sparked the querelle des bouffons in Paris as an adaptation without sung recitatives. Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian genre...
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  • Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian genre of opera buffa (comic opera) performed in 18th-century France, either in the original language...
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    17 October 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2023. "Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance)". David Zwirner. Retrieved 23 August 2023. "The Fight"...
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    Moresca (redirect from Les Bouffons)
    or moresque, mauresque (French), also known in French as the danse des bouffons, is a dance of exotic character encountered in Europe in the Renaissance...
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  • Panorama -- Le Temps des bouffons (1985) (Review in French) Text of the film (in French) Description in English Le Temps des bouffons at IMDb v t e v t e...
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    remembered for his monumental study of commedia dell'arte – Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne), 1860. Callirhoé, Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1864 Catalogue...
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    Book illustration of Pulcinella in 1700 (1860) by Maurice Sand, found in Masques et bouffons: comédie italienne...
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    Lélio. (Maurice Sand, Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne), 1860.)...
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    was performed in Paris in 1752, it prompted the so-called Querelle des Bouffons ("quarrel of the comic actors") between supporters of serious French opera...
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    performing both clown and bouffon comic genres and is thought by some to be the world's leading authority on the "Bouffon", a comic genre he holds as...
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  • various different forms. Acrobat Actor Archimime Barker Beatboxer Benshi Bouffon Cheerleader Circus performer Clown Club Hostess/Host Comedian Dancer Drag...
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    Chamber opera Comic opera Ballad opera Opera buffa Opéra bouffe Opéra bouffon Opéra comique Comédie en vaudevilles Comédie mêlée d'ariettes Operetta...
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    comedy Comic theatre Musical comedy Comic opera Improvisational theatre Bouffon comedy Clowns One-liner joke Blonde jokes Shaggy-dog story Paddy Irishman...
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    favoured Italian opera during the controversy known as the Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. Rameau's music had gone out of fashion by the end of the...
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    Dudevant, called) (1915). The history of the harlequinade [orig. Masques et bouffons. 2 vols. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1860]. Philadelphia: Lippincott. Sansone...
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    (c. 1870) The Italian Pagliaccio of c. 1600 (Maurice Sand, Masques et bouffons (Comedie Italienne), 1860) The French Paillasse character (1885 engraving)...
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    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona, prompted the Querelle des Bouffons, which pitted protagonists of French music against supporters of the Italian...
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    London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415204088. Sand, Maurice (1860). Masques et Bouffons. Comédie italienne, vol. 1. Paris: Michel Levy Frères. Copy Archived 21...
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    dell'arte Pierrot Caterina Biancolelli Sand, Maurice (1862). Masques et bouffons comédie italienne · Volume 1. pp. 248, 355. "Colombina". Enciclopedia Treccani...
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    Danse espagnole "Café" — Danse arabe "Thé" — Danse chinoise Danse des Bouffons Danse des mirlitons La mère Gigogne et les polichinelles Grand ballabile...
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    Italian "buffare", meaning to puff out one's cheeks that also applies to bouffon. Having swelled their cheeks they would slap them to expel the air and...
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  • opera buffa that after the death of Pergolesi kicked off the Querelle des Bouffons. In some cases the intermezzo repertory spread more quickly than did the...
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    Red Bastard is a live bouffon clown theatre show written and performed by Eric Davis. What begins with a surreal monologue by a twisted clown named Red...
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    Maurice Sand, "Tartaglia the stutterer (1650)". Originally published in Masques et bouffons, une histoire illustrée de la comédie italienne (1862)....
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    dances from non-sword traditions, and such common continental dances as Bouffons or Mattachins as described by Thoinot Arbeau in 1588. hilt-and-point sword...
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  • Lip-syncing Cheryl Hole - Lip-syncing Janey Jacké - Lip-syncing/dancing Jimbo - Bouffon Jujubee - Live singing Lemon - Lip-syncing Mo Heart - Live singing Pangina...
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    Catulle Mendès, playing Saint Theresa, followed on 27 January 1907 by Les Bouffons, by Miguel Zamocois, in which she played a young and amorous medieval lord...
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