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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: beat perception

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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    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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    Music

    Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz

    Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until the other day: Poldowski (1879-1932), the ...
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    Music

    A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero

    If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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    DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
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