Monthly Archives: May 2014

That Czerny tarantella from Etudes – found but unidentified

Posted on May 29, 2014 7:54 am by Jonathan Still
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Posters in an Italian piano forum have been playing the same game as me – trying to identify the Czerny studies used in Riisager’s ballet Etudes. In my post on the subject, I managed to trace all of them (leaving aside any … Continue reading →

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More on “truly triple meter” – are Chopin’s waltzes really mazurkas?

Posted on May 23, 2014 7:55 am by Jonathan Still
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I’m not saying that Chopin couldn’t write a waltz, or that his embodied sense of  waltzing was too fragile to be able to incorporate it in music. But I wonder if the inherent tripleness of his waltzes is not a … Continue reading →

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What Schenker, Nicholas Cook & a food processor taught me about piano fingering

Posted on May 3, 2014 1:32 pm by Jonathan Still
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By what turns out to be a happy coincidence, I managed this week to combine reading Nicholas Cook’s Beyond the Score: Music as Performance with an accident in which I sliced the end of the fourth finger on my right hand while I was … Continue reading →

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