A year of playing cards #5: An operatic adage by Dvořák
Download the score of “Song to the Moon” (pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The curse of the operatic adage I think I only have about…
A year of ballet playing cards #50: A chameleon-like march by Granados (DJ)
Download the score of the Military March by Granados (pdf, free) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The march that isn’t a march: one of the perennial…
A year of ballet playing cards #35: A mazurka by Hubay
Download piano score of Hubay’s mazurka (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Slow, mazurka-like exercises from the corner for multiple pirouettes are a staple of…
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…
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…