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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: Dance

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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    August 16, 2019 4:52 pm
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    “. . . And she done the fandango all over the place”

    I’ve just found another beautiful piece of dance research. Beauty might be an odd adjective to use, but there is something deeply attractive about the careful ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 23, 2016 11:17 pm
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    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 ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 12, 2016 10:32 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #53 (Black Joker): Reel from La Sylphide

    There's nothing like the reel from La Sylphide to perk up little jumps in a ballet class. Here's the piano score, nicely typeset.
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsMusicPlaying 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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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 28, 2015 10:58 am
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    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 ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying 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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  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • 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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