_Masque of Blackness_ (Ben Jonson), 83. _Masque of Cassandra_, 86. _Masque of Castillo_ (John Crowne). 83 _Masque of Owles_, 84. Masques (English), 83. Mathematics (relation of, to dancing and architecture), vi. Mauri, Rosetta (ballerina), 159. Mazurka, 136. Mediævalism (relation to dancing), v. See also Middle Ages. Medici, Catherine de’, 10, 86, 121. Mek na snut (Egyptian pirouette), 20. Melartin, Erik, 205. Melkatusta (Finnish folk-dance), 132. Memphis (temple dances to Osiris), 15f. Merchant Taylor’s Hall (masques performed at), 83. Merikanto, 205. Messertanz (of Nuremberg), 129. Mexicans, iii. Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 103, 151. Miassine, Leonide, 232. Middle Ages (choreography of), 78ff, 247. Milan School, 151. Military dance. See War dance. Milon (French composer and ballet master), 91, 94, 101. Mimii (Roman dancers), 74. Minerva, 54. Minuet (comparison of, to Greek dances), 70; (in _Lou Gue_), 80; (in 17th-cent. French court), 86, 147f. Miriam (Biblical character), 19. Mirror Dance, 192. Mohammedans, 21. Molière, 86. Mongolian tribes (dancing of, compared with Indians), 28; (use of Pyrrhic dance by), 60. Monteverdi, 82. Moors, 46; (influence of, on Spanish dances), 50f, 105, 106, 112. Mordkin, Mikail, 185, 187, 220, 221, 222, 248. Moreau (painting of Salome dance), 45. Morocco (Almeiis dancing), 21. Morris Dances, 113ff. Moscow (Imperial Ballet School), 172; (opera house), 175. Moses, 43, 44. Moujiks, 172, 178. Mount Ida, 54. Moussorgsky, Modest, 104, 171, 181, 224. Movement (rel. to sound), 238. Mozart, v, 101, 102f, 206. Müller, Max (cited), 60, 62. Munich (guild dance), 129. Muravieva (ballerina), 151. Murcia (folk-dances of), 106. Muses (Egyptian), 13; (Greek), 10, 54, 57. Museums. See British Museum, Petrograd Museum, Naples Museum. Music (of Japanese), 38; (in Greek dances), 58; (influenced by Russian ballet), 176; (as underlying principle of dancing), 198; (in relation to eurhythmics), 235, 236f, 242; (relation to gesture), 240, 248; (in rel. to modern ballet), 249ff; (syncopated, of America), 265. Musical notation (Arabic), 17, 47; (Egyptian), 17; (Spanish), 17; (Chinese), 33. Muyniera (Galician folk-dance), 106. Mysteries. See Eleusinian Mysteries, Dionysian Mysteries. Mysteries of Demetrius, 69. N Naples Museum, 69. Napoleon, 102, 148. Nationalism (expressed in folk-dancing), 3, 113; (rel. to arts), 104ff; (in Scandinavia), 104; (in Russia), 104f; (in Irish folk-dance), 119f; (in Finnish folk-dances), 132f. Naturalistic School, 195ff, 232f. Nature (expression of, in dancing), 196. Nausicaa, 52. Nautch Dance, 209. Nautch girls, 26. Naxos, 54. Neo-Hellenism, 245. Neoptolemus, 60. Nero, 74, 75. Nicomedes of Pithynia, 55.
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