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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
July 30, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #34: A triple jig medley (8c)

Download the triple jig medley piano score (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You may never need this playing card at all. ...

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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 12, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #44: A long, jolly polka/galop from Le Diable à quatre (5d)

Download the score of the galop for ballet class (pdf) for free Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Something about this galop for ...

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Advent calendar Dance Music Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
December 25, 2014 4:59 am
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Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #25: 9/8

I was tempted to put the ballet-class equivalent of the Holy Family on the 25th of this advent calendar, to finish off the series with a heart-warming sentimental twist ...

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Advent calendar Dance Music Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
December 1, 2013 11:13 pm
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A christmas ballet class #01: Warm-up – Oh come all ye faithful

As it’s christmas, I’m handing out carols for class, one a day, until Christmas day. Free for you to use in class, but don’t go selling ...

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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.
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OCR errors and ballet

Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
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Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
Music Musicology Playing 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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Kostrovitskaya’s career as a plasterer

In these days when artists are insulted by the idea of having to retrain as something else, let's take a moment to remember Vera Kostrovitskaya, famous pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...