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…
Playing for ballet class: links, books, suggestions
Where can you go, what can you do, and what can you read, watch or listen to to learn to play for ballet? Here are some tips.
Musicology, ballet teaching and time signature
A proud day for me, my first proper article published in Empirical Musicology Review. “How Down is a Downbeat? Feeling Meter and Gravity in Music and Dance?” came out of…
Hooray for Forscore
It’s taken me far too long to get the Forscore sheet music app: I can be very slow to adopt stuff. It’s at least a couple of years since my…
A year of ballet playing cards #21: A gigue by Grétry (8h)
Download the score (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards I can’t remember why I started listening to Grétry’s music after neglecting him for so long.…
Ballet classes and dance calling
I’ve had two conversations with people who play for ceilidhs which have made me think that there’s much more in common between dance calling and teaching a ballet class than…