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Tag: mazurka

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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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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2014 7:35 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #8: The dreaded slow mazurka pirouette

    The moment I see a teacher marking a pirouette that has a massive, sweeping balancé in it, I know there’s trouble ahead. Like the dreaded 2/4 sissonne of ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 18, 2014 8:20 am
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    More on the rareness of the truly triple waltz

    In my last post, I said “Truly triple waltzes are an impossibility. They shouldn’t exist, and they don’t”. Less than 48 hours later, while I was playing Ich weiß nicht ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 9, 2012 10:22 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #9: for ‘waltz’ read ‘mazurka’ for pirouettes

    Even though teachers often ask  for a ‘waltz’ for pirouettes on a 3, sometimes (in fact, most times) what works much better is a mazurka.   ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 24, 2011 7:11 am
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    Polonaise and mazurka: the ultimate internet resource page

    This is probably the most wonderful site I’ve ever come across in the very specialised world of music for dance: a page of links to the ...
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  • 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.
  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
  • 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.
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