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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

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

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Playing for ballet class

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Posts about the work of ballet pianists—including stuff that might not seem immediately related (like historical dance, character, musicology, and so on)

  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 26, 2020 12:27 pm
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    Can’t tell a waltz from a tango? I have just the song for you

    “I can’t tell a waltz from a tango” would be a great title for a ballet-related music course, though in all honesty, “I can’t tell a ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 16, 2020 8:47 pm
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    The Ballet Piano Podcast

    I remember saying to someone a few years ago that the distance between you thinking of an idea for a project, and someone else coming up ...
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  • Free sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 16, 2019 10:51 pm
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    Fille mal Gardée: the Gorsky pas de deux music for piano

    The short version This post started out as a bit of excitement at finding that the source for the Gorsky Fille mal gardée pas de deux male ...
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  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 11, 2019 6:57 am
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    Steps in a polonaise rhythm: Rasmussen’s “Experiencing Architecture”

    Rhythm in architecture A few years ago I was trying to write some study materials about “rhythm,” and tied myself in knots trying to connect all ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 2, 2019 8:48 pm
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    Waltz offences: when to call the police

    For no reason except that I love the story, here’s an interesting fact about the waltz in 19th century Innsbruck. According to Eric McKee (2014) after ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 1, 2019 7:18 am
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    Historical dance resources page (Richard Powers)

    Now and again I come across resources on the web that make me wonder how it was possible to have missed them all this time. Richard ...
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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.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #39 (KC): “Spanish waltz” medley

    What is a Spanish waltz? Is there such a thing? No, but here is one all the same, in case you're asked.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #54 (Red Joker): Odalisques from Le Corsaire

    Download Odalisques piano score (free PDF) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards It’s that time of year again, ballet summer schools season, when teachers are supposed to tell ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #38 (QC): Prague Waltzes: Soft, strong and very long.

    Download piano sheet music for Prague Waltzes by Dvořak (free pdf) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards When is a waltz not “a waltz”? Most of the time  ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #37: A grand polonaise by Nápravník

    Download the Polonaise by Nápravník  (free pdf) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You’d think that if ballet teachers have a mental model of how a polonaise goes, ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of playing cards #23: A fruity waltz by Tcherepnin / Cherepnin (10h)

    Download Grande valse by Cherepnin—free pdf Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards What a difference an e makes: the difference between a grand waltz and a grande valse ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of playing cards #5: An operatic adage by Dvořák

    Download the score of “Song to the Moon” (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The curse of the operatic adage  I think I only have about three ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #36: A triple meter ballad by Tárrega

    Download the free piano score of this Tárrega piece  (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards A Tárrega ballad, the perfect plié music? When I say “perfect” what ...
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #50: A chameleon-like march by Granados (DJ)

    Download the score  of the Military March by Granados  (pdf, free)  Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The march that isn’t a march: one of the perennial problems of music ...
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