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Category Archives: Musicology
New metre and rhythm page
After 11 years of having odd articles about rhythm and metre all over my old site at jsmusic.org.uk, I decided it was time to reduce it all down to a page of the books and articles on rhythm that I got most … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicology, Playing for ballet class
Tagged Personal, meter, metre, musicology, pedagogy, rhythm
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And now for something completely sextuple
This variation by Mozart on “Ah, vous dirai-je maman”, K.265/300e has turned out to be a real life-saver in class for one of those ballet exercises where you need a 6/8 that gives you six quavers in a bar (click here to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicology, Playing for ballet class
Tagged 18th century theory, 6/8, Danuta Mirka, Personal, compound meter, meter, metre, music pedagogy, music theory, rhythm, time signature
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The rarity of truly triple metre
If you’ve been following this blog recently, you know that I’m a little obsessed with time signature and metre in the 18th & 19th centuries (see Compound errors and Counting Tchaikovsky). Today, it paid off in company class, when I … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicology, Playing for ballet class
Tagged Music, Personal, Tchaikovsky, ballet accompaniment, hypermeter, meter, metre, musicology, waltz
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Counting Tchaikovsky
On the weekend, I was playing the tarantella-ish Prince’s solo from Sleeping Beauty. Then, as every time I play this music, I panicked half way through the introduction – how many duh-da-da’s have I played? How many should there be? Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Personal, Tchaikovsky, ballet music, meter, metre, musicology, time signature
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Compound errors
Someone asked me last night what made me want to do a PhD in music in ballet training. I explained that one of the reasons came out of trying to teach time signature to trainee ballet teachers. It’s not that … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicology, Playing for ballet class
Tagged Personal, compound metre, metre, music research, music theory, musicology, time signature
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More on borrowings in the Nutcracker
I think most people know that there are quite a few musical borrowings in the Nutcracker, and that Tchaikovsky got the theme for the Arabian from somewhere – a Georgian folk song or something like that. But it’s only thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Music, Musicology, Playing for ballet class
Tagged Georgian music, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Music, Tchaikovsky, ballet, borrowings, choreomusicology, musical surprises, nutcracker
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