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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Latest Articles

  • Music

    Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz

    By Jonathan Still
    March 8, 2021 12:01 am
    Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until ...
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  • Music

    A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero

    By Jonathan Still
    March 4, 2021 8:37 pm
    If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    By Jonathan Still
    February 28, 2021 3:31 pm
    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    By Jonathan Still
    February 17, 2021 4:01 pm
    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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  • DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    By Jonathan Still
    February 7, 2021 8:20 pm
    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
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  • Dance LegendsMusicTop pages

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    By Jonathan Still
    January 26, 2021 7:16 pm
    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
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A year of playing cards: latest

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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #39 (KC): “Spanish waltz” medley

    What is a Spanish waltz? Is there such a thing? No, but here is one all the same, in case you're asked.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #54 (Red Joker): Odalisques from Le Corsaire

    Download Odalisques piano score (free PDF) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards It’s that time of year again, ballet summer schools season, when teachers are supposed to tell ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #38 (QC): Prague Waltzes: Soft, strong and very long.

    Download piano sheet music for Prague Waltzes by Dvořak (free pdf) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards When is a waltz not “a waltz”? Most of the time  ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #37: A grand polonaise by Nápravník

    Download the Polonaise by Nápravník  (free pdf) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You’d think that if ballet teachers have a mental model of how a polonaise goes, ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of playing cards #23: A fruity waltz by Tcherepnin / Cherepnin (10h)

    Download Grande valse by Cherepnin—free pdf Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards What a difference an e makes: the difference between a grand waltz and a grande valse ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of playing cards #5: An operatic adage by Dvořák

    Download the score of “Song to the Moon” (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The curse of the operatic adage  I think I only have about three ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #36: A triple meter ballad by Tárrega

    Download the free piano score of this Tárrega piece  (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards A Tárrega ballad, the perfect plié music? When I say “perfect” what ...
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    A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #50: A chameleon-like march by Granados (DJ)

    Download the score  of the Military March by Granados  (pdf, free)  Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The march that isn’t a march: one of the perennial problems of music ...
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