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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    March 12, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards #15: A rumpty-tumpty waltz (Oh! Oh! Antonio)

    Get the piano score (free download)  Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards I like it when teachers set grands battements on what I call ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 26, 2013 9:04 am
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    Advent calendar day #26: Those extra fouettés and turns in 2nd – Good King Wenceslas

    To download the song, either right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) the player above and select ‘save audio as’, or right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) this link and select ‘save link as‘. It was ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 1, 2013 11:13 pm
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    A christmas ballet class #01: Warm-up – Oh come all ye faithful

    As it’s christmas, I’m handing out carols for class, one a day, until Christmas day. Free for you to use in class, but don’t go selling ...
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    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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    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
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    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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    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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