A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras
This romance from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers is great for an adage or port de bras, perhaps
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 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.
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 solo was Czibulka’s…
Bugatti Step by Jaroslav Ježek, and the joy of musical journeys
I said it had been a week for finding things: well, it’s not over yet., apparently. The Bugatti Step As this will be a longish ramble about finding music, I’ll…
Grands pas des éventails from Le Corsaire: some piano materials
A link to the piano score of the Grand pas des éventails in Le Corsaire, and interpolated solo from Pygmalion