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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Music Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
February 11, 2016 10:15 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #22: A schmaltzy waltz by Kéler (9h)

Download the waltz by Kéler in piano score (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Elastic or expressive timing is a feature ...

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Dance Music Playing for ballet class

By Jonathan Still
July 16, 2015 7:06 am
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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 ...

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

By Jonathan Still
June 25, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of playing cards #19: A medley of (double) jigs (6h)

Download the score of the double jig medley (free pdf) (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards I’m a few weeks behind, not least ...

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

By Jonathan Still
June 4, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #18: Another 6/8 allegro – by Auber (5h)

Download music for allegro in six eight (6/8) by Auber (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards This music for allegro in six ...

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

By Jonathan Still
April 9, 2015 9:06 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #29: A Chaconne and a grand dance (3c)

Download the score (free PDF) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Why is the chaconne so rare in ballet class culture? I’ve no idea. ...

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

By Jonathan Still
April 2, 2015 5:20 am
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A year of ballet playing cards #28: Fächerpolonaise Op. 525 by Ziehrer (2c)

Download the score of Ziehrer’s polonaise (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards In search of the serviceable polonaise for ballet class A ...

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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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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 Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Music Playing 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 Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing 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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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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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

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A year of ballet playing cards #22: A schmaltzy waltz by Kéler (9h)

Ballet classes and dance calling

A year of playing cards #19: A medley of (double) jigs (6h)

A year of ballet playing cards #18: Another 6/8 allegro – by Auber (5h)

A year of ballet playing cards #29: A Chaconne and a grand dance (3c)

A year of ballet playing cards #28: Fächerpolonaise Op. 525 by Ziehrer (2c)