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OUVERTURE

EDITORIAL
Michael Hüttler (Vienna) and Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna/Florence)


PROLOGUE

IMPRESSIONS AND IMAGES OF THE OTTOMANS IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION, CULTURAL TRANSFER AND ART
Katalin Rumpler (Vienna)



ACT I: GLUCK, LE TURC GÉNÉREUX, AND THE VIENNA CONTEXT

GLUCK THE WANDERER
TRAVELS OF AN EUROPEAN COMPOSER (1734-1779)
Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna)

JALOUSIE, VOLUPTÉ ET LA GALANT:
TURKISH BALLETS IN THE VIENNESE REPERTOIRE (1750-1760)
Vera Grund (Paderborn)

WHAT THE ENVOY SAW: DIPLOMACY, THEATRE, AND AHMED RESMÎ EFENDI'S EMBASSY TO VIENNA (1758)
Bruce Alan Brown (Los Angeles, CA)

THE NEW EDITION OF GLUCK AND ANGIOLINI'S DON JUAN (1761) IN THE GLUCK-GESAMTAUSGABE
Sibylle Dahms (Salzburg)


ACT II: LE TURC ET LA COUR, BALLET ALLA TURCA AND BAROQUE

SEMIOTIC ASPECTS OF THE BAROQUE, THE BALLET, AND THE TURKISH RELATION (1610-1761)
Strother Purdy (Bridgewater, Conneticut)

QUESTIONS REGARDING THE 'PARADE OF THE NATIONS' IN THE CARROUSEL DE MONSEIGNEUR LE DAUPHIN (1662)
David Chataignier (Åbo)

SCANDERBERG ON THE FRENCH OPERATIC STAGE: THE TURKISH SUBJECT AS A MEDIATION FOR FICTION (1735)
Laura Naudeix (Rennes)

BETWEEN ROMANTICISM AND REALITY: DANCING DANISH TURKS (1764-1870)
Bent Holm (Copenhagen)

THE 'SULTAN' IMAGE IN SELECTED BALLETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY (1772-1836)
Evren Kutlay (Istanbul)


ACT III: DANCING TURKISHNESS: GENRE AND GENDER IN BALLETS TURCS AND TURKISH DANCES

"HEROES AND VILLAINS": HABSBURG SUPREMACY OVER THE OTTOMANS IN TRIUMPHAS CELEBRATIONS IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS (1685)
Dirk G. Van Waelderen (Leuven)

THE "TÜRKISH DANCE", AN AMBIVALENT EMBLEM OF THE FRENCH BELLE DANSE (1725)
Dóra Kiss (Paris/Geneva)


EPILOGUE

ANGELO SOLIMAN (1721-1796) - REVISITED
Bert Gstettner (Vienna)

A LIFE FOR THE SULTAN: MURAD V (1840-1904) AND THE CREATION OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL BALLET
Emre Araci (London)

APPENDIX

INDEX

CURRICULA VITAE