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Music Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 27, 2015 8:33 pm
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How to transcribe from audio to piano score: technologies and process

Transcribing music from audio to score is something I’ve done for as long as I can remember, if you count those music dictation tests we had to ...

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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 26, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #45: A country wedding (polka) from Má Vlast (6d)

Download the piano score of this polka from Ma Vlast Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards How this polka fell into my ...

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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 19, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #14: A small, medium and large waltz by Adam (Ah)

Download the score for free (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards “Do you have anything smaller?” Music, meter and small change Even ...

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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 12, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #44: A long, jolly polka/galop from Le Diable à quatre (5d)

Download the score of the galop for ballet class (pdf) for free Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Something about this galop for ...

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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 5, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #27: A big polonaise by Glazunov (Ac)

Download the score of this Polonaise by Glazunov as a pdf (free download) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards In an earlier post ...

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Dance Music

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.
IT

OCR errors and ballet

Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
Music

Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
Dance Dance Legends People

Kostrovitskaya’s career as a plasterer

In these days when artists are insulted by the idea of having to retrain as something else, let's take a moment to remember Vera Kostrovitskaya, famous pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...

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Tamara Karsavina on music

On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

Ballet pianists on film

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

Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Monthly Archives: February 2015

How to transcribe from audio to piano score: technologies and process

A year of ballet playing cards #45: A country wedding (polka) from Má Vlast (6d)

A year of ballet playing cards #14: A small, medium and large waltz by Adam (Ah)

A year of ballet playing cards #44: A long, jolly polka/galop from Le Diable à quatre (5d)

A year of ballet playing cards #27: A big polonaise by Glazunov (Ac)