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…
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…
Varieties of reading: drawing in and pulling away
I’ve just finished reading Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, which I’d happily say is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year. I wonder when…
A year of ballet playing cards #53 (Black Joker): Reel from La Sylphide
There's nothing like the reel from La Sylphide to perk up little jumps in a ballet class. Here's the piano score, nicely typeset.
Distraction, “the Attentional Commons” and Birmingham
Birmingham New Street: the attentional commons colonized by commerce It so happened that while I was reading about a concept of the “attentional commons,” I was staying right next door…
A year of ballet playing cards #22: A schmaltzy waltz by Kéler (9h)
Download the waltz by Kéler in piano score (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Elastic or expressive timing is a feature of music in ballet…