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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Monthly Archives: January 2015

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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 29, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards #43: A csárdás-like Nocturne by Schubert (D4)

    This Notturno from Schubert's trio D897 has a lot of csárdás-like qualities that make it very suitable for some adage or battement fondu exercises.
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 22, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards #42: Diable à Quatre male variation – big 2/4 jumpy thing (D3)

    This solo from Adam's "Diable à quatre" is great for those bouncy medium/big sissonne-type allegros in 2/4.
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    January 20, 2015 7:44 am
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    Daniel Levitin on the perils of multitasking

    “Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugar-coated tasks.” That’s a ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 15, 2015 5:48 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #41: A juicy csárdás – Ünneplö (“Festive”) by Rózsavölgyi (D2)

    Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page D2-Ünneplö (Celebration or “Festive”) by Mark Rózsavölgyi) – click to download the file ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 8, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards: #40 The Csárdás (1D)

      Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page 1D (#40): Liszt Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D flat (opening) ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 8, 2015 5:19 am
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    About a Year of Ballet Playing Cards

    A Year of Ballet Playing Cards is a collection of 52 pieces of downloadable sheet music for ballet class with a blog entry attached. That’s one piece ...
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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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