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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: Delibes

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  • MusicMusicologyTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    August 17, 2018 11:34 am
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    “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

    The Scotch Snap goes to Poland My recent discovery that one of the interpolations in Coppélia for Franz’s variation is from a “Scottish” ballet (Gretna Green, by Guiraud) encouraged ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2012 11:51 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #22: With harmony too, less is more

    If you’re improvising or harmonising a melody, there’s a lot to be said for just sticking to simple harmonies, and avoiding chromaticism or excessive modulation for ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 12, 2010 1:33 pm
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    Musical surprises #26: The Csárdás from Coppélia is not by Delibes

    A bit unseasonal this, since ‘musical surprises’ was the theme of my 2009 Advent Calendar. But I just couldn’t wait til next year to share my ...
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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.
  • 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.
  • DanceDance LegendsPeople

    Kostrovitskaya’s career as a plasterer

    In these days when artists are insulted by the idea of having to retrain as something else, let's take a moment to remember Vera Kostrovitskaya, famous pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...
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