Music theory for (ballet) dancers, the last word for now? Grant’s “Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era”
I’ve just added Roger Grant’s Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era as my top choice for books…
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…
A year of ballet playing cards #17: A six eight allegro (4h) from Verdi’s “Jerusalem”
Download Verdi – Ballet music to Jersusalem (Act 3, 16: No 2, Pas de deux) (free piano score pdf) …
Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #25: 9/8
I was tempted to put the ballet-class equivalent of the Holy Family on the 25th of this advent calendar, to finish off…
More (sorry!) on triple metre and ballet classes
One of the reasons that I’m very sympathetic to anyone who says they don’t “get” time signature, is that my…
New metre and rhythm page
After 11 years of having odd articles about rhythm and metre all over my old site at jsmusic.org.uk, I decided it…