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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Yearly Archives: 2015

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  • By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2015 8:04 am
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    Importing documents and structure from Scrivener to MaxQDA

    Here’s my triumph of the day: getting Scrivener to export about 400 separate documents into a single file that you can then import into MaxQDA with a code ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 2, 2015 9:01 am
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    New ballet playing card published

    I’m publishing my 52 cards on the dates that they should have been published – so you might have missed the latest one, a medley of triple jigs, ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    October 22, 2015 10:11 am
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    Conference on music and movement as process and experience

    If you’re wondering why there’s been a long silence in the 52 cards project, it’s because I’ve been just too busy with other stuff, such as ...
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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 28, 2015 10:58 am
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    Musicology, ballet teaching and time signature

    A proud day for me, my first proper article published in Empirical Musicology Review. “How Down is a Downbeat? Feeling Meter and Gravity in Music and Dance?” came ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    September 3, 2015 6:47 am
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    Normal service coming soon…

    For those looking for the next 52 cards update, it’s on it’s way, and I’ll try to catch up the missing entries for August as well. ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    August 13, 2015 5:47 am
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    Evenings on Žofin

    One of the most complicated music references I’ve ever had to research was for a piece that I found on an album called Little Pearls of Czech Classics. The ...
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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.
  • DanceMusic

    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.
  • Dance LegendsMusic

    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.
  • DanceMusic

    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.
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