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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 12, 2010 1:33 pm
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    Musical surprises #26: The Csárdás from Coppélia is not by Delibes

    A bit unseasonal this, since ‘musical surprises’ was the theme of my 2009 Advent Calendar. But I just couldn’t wait til next year to share my ...
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  • Advent calendarMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2009 4:49 am
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    Musical surprises #25: A bit of Tooting history

    Happy Christmas! Today’s revelation is not strictly a musical surprise, except that it vaguely concerns me and I’m a musician. But it’s quite surprising all the ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2009 12:01 am
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    Musical surprises #24: What Rumanian dances sound like without the Bartók

    I love Bartók’s Rumanian Dances, and indeed, I’ve just recorded them with the violinist Gillon Cameron on the album  After Class 2. But I was gobsmacked ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 23, 2009 9:11 am
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    Musical surprises #23: Vauxhall, Strauss & Tchaikovsky

    Although the light and popular dance rhythms of Johann Strauss II seem a sociocultural world away from the ‘classical’ Tchaikovsky, they’re not. It’s our own snobbery ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2009 7:43 am
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    Musical surprises #22: There’s a psychopomp in my barcarole

    Next time you get to a slow bit of a ballet where there’s something a bit wafty and barcarole-ish in 6/8, look out for a psychopomp. ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 21, 2009 9:33 am
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    Musical surprises #21: If you want to play for children’s ballet, study semiotics

    Thanks to the musical semiotician Raymond Monelle and his wonderful book The Sense of Music, I am happily aware that there is a concept in music ...
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Welcome to my site. I mostly write about playing for ballet (I'm a pianist), but the further back you go, the stupider the posts get, so I wouldn't recommend trawling through the archives for treasure.

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    A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras

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    Music, time and politics in the ballet studio

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