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Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
April 9, 2014 6:39 pm
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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 ...

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Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
April 7, 2014 4:40 pm
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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 ...

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Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
March 28, 2014 11:47 am
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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 ...

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Dance Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
May 18, 2012 4:22 pm
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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 ...

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Music Musicology

By Jonathan Still
March 2, 2012 3:58 pm
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New choreomusicology article

Music, dance and the total art work: choreomusicology in theory and practice is an article just out by Paul Mason in Research in Dance Education that ...

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Dance Music Musicology Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
January 25, 2012 8:04 am
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The Scotch Snap: everything you needed to know, and a hundred more questions

This is probably the most interesting video I’ve ever seen on a musical question. If you want to know why, read on below the clip. As ...

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

A year of ballet playing cards #35: A mazurka by Hubay

Download piano score of Hubay’s mazurka (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Slow, mazurka-like exercises from the corner for multiple pirouettes are a staple of all the company ...
A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

A year of ballet playing cards #53 (Black Joker): Reel from La Sylphide

Download the reel from La Sylphide in piano score (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards I promised that I’d be posting a couple of “jokers” in ...