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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: beat perception

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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 11, 2018 3:48 pm
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    Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

    Nice to see an article about marching music, one of the weird, esoteric topics  that perplex ballet pianists like me: a 2018 conference paper byNiels Hansen, ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 19, 2012 8:37 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips day 19: read the feet, divide the beat

    In petit allegro, it’s a useful rule of thumb to listen to the rhythm of the exercise as the teacher sets it, and look very carefully ...
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    Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    It’s nearly ten years since I first heard and blogged about Mary [Mollie Bagot Stack] and her Women’s League of Health and Beauty—an organization so successful that they had shows ...
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    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.
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    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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