Music
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Drigo’s “Reveil de Flore” piano score online
Thanks to Patty Noel who alerted me to the fact that Harvard now have this available online digitally. We’d both previously searched high and low for ... -
Little Humpbacked Horse thesis online
Great to read Aaron Manela’s masters thesis “Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse in Context,” which is available online. Here’s the abstract: In this study I examine ... -
“. . . And she done the fandango all over the place”
I’ve just found another beautiful piece of dance research. Beauty might be an odd adjective to use, but there is something deeply attractive about the careful ... -
Moira Shearer, according to Francis Sparshott
Sometimes I put things on my website just because I know that I’ll never find them again, and because they’re so darn weird, blogging about them ...