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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 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. -
The wonderful Library of Dance
The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes. -
Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record
The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online. -
Which was the first ballet to be rehearsed to piano?
It's hard to find out when people first rehearsed ballet with piano rather than violin. An article from 1963 might have the answer. -
OCR errors and ballet
Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
