Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #3: Pop songs
I’ve got to be very careful how I put this, for fear of being taken the wrong way (see, I’m even anxious about that). So let’s get one thing out…
Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #2: Fear of repetition
I’m relatively relaxed about repetition, because over the years a few dancers have told me that sometimes it’s nice to hear something familiar, either because they like it, or because…
Company class: Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist, day #1 (Advent 2014)
My post about problems of playing for a “White Swan” rehearsal generated a lot of interesting comments from dance and music friends on Facebook. One musician friend sympathised with my…
More (sorry!) on triple metre and ballet classes
One of the reasons that I’m very sympathetic to anyone who says they don’t “get” time signature, is that my own hearing and sense of metre can play strange tricks…
Meter vs subdivision: An easy solution to the ballet and time signature problem?
In the course of writing an article about the problems of ballet and time signature recently, I read a lot of books and articles about 18th century theories of meter.…
More on the rareness of the truly triple waltz
In my last post, I said “Truly triple waltzes are an impossibility. They shouldn’t exist, and they don’t”. Less than 48 hours later, while I was playing Ich weiß nicht…