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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: advent 2012

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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 17, 2014 7:05 am
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    Playing for ballet class: a page of tips

    In December 2012 I posted daily articles about what I've learned about playing for ballet classes over the last 25 years or so. This is a ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2012 10:30 pm
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    Playing for ballet class tips #25: respect the ritual

    Class has a ritual, liturgical quality to it, particularly in a company. It is daily, it happens at a particular time, with such religious regard for ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2012 6:53 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #24: Speak up – don’t act the pianist

    I can’t remember when exactly I discovered this, but it was life-changing. If you’ve got a question in class or rehearsal, speak up, don’t act the ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 23, 2012 10:19 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #23: Watch the teacher

    The advice to ‘watch the teacher’ is so obvious, it should have been one of the very first tips. But if there’s a reason I’ve hesitated ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2012 11:51 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #22: With harmony too, less is more

    If you’re improvising or harmonising a melody, there’s a lot to be said for just sticking to simple harmonies, and avoiding chromaticism or excessive modulation for ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 21, 2012 12:55 pm
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    Playing for ballet class tip #21: Make friends with a notator

    If there’s one kind of person in the ballet universe who can really understand where you’re coming from as a musician, and where you need to ...
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  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
  • DanceMusic

    Which was the first ballet to be rehearsed to piano?

    It's hard to find out when people first rehearsed ballet with piano rather than violin. An article from 1963 might have the answer.
  • IT

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
  • Music

    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class

    More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

    Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
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