{"id":688,"date":"2018-08-30T03:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2018-08-30T03:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T03:13:52","slug":"le-roi-danse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Le Roi Danse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a &#8220;sidebar&#8221; in\u00a0 Music Theory about double-dotted notes, the French Overture, and Jean Batiste Lully. The prof. mentioned a movie Le Roi Danse. It is in French. I found parts of it with English subtitles, and the whole thing dubbed in Spanish. It&#8217;s a glorious spectacle. Here&#8217;s the whole film in Spanish &#8212; note that you must sign into Youtube and vouch that you are over 18.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le roi danse espa\u00f1ol\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iswWGVsnbrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a clip with subtitles in English. Lully gains the young king&#8217;s favor by giving him some golden high-heeled\u00a0 dancing shoes. The scene with Louis &#8212; surrounded with sparklers&#8211; emerging through a hole in the stage makes me think of something from a Lady Gaga concert.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le Roi Danse J.B Lully Ballet de la Nuit 1653 (Ouverture) Le Roi repr\u00e9sentant le soleil levant\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PdeqbpfXaK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, here is an article that talks about how the film distorts history. I wondered about that. I love <em>Amadeus<\/em> and <em>Immortal Beloved<\/em> but I know that those films are both loose adaptations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"si0l105d6o\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/h-france.net\/fffh\/classics\/the-king-is-dancing-and-the-kings-way\/\">[The King is Dancing] and [The King&#8217;s Way]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;[The King is Dancing] and [The King&#8217;s Way]&#8221; &#8212; Fiction and Film for Scholars of France\" src=\"https:\/\/h-france.net\/fffh\/classics\/the-king-is-dancing-and-the-kings-way\/embed\/#?secret=E6pqgkxtmH#?secret=si0l105d6o\" data-secret=\"si0l105d6o\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a &#8220;sidebar&#8221; in\u00a0 Music Theory about double-dotted notes, the French Overture, and Jean Batiste Lully. The prof. mentioned a movie Le Roi Danse. It is in French. I found parts of it with English subtitles, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}