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Tag: metre

Home›Posts Tagged "metre"
  • MusicMusicology
    By Jonathan Still
    February 6, 2017 10:11 pm
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    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 on music theory for those interested ...
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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 CardsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 21, 2015 5:20 am
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    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)   Read  more about my Year of Ballet ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2014 4:59 am
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    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 the series with a heart-warming sentimental twist ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    October 21, 2014 6:48 am
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    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 own hearing and sense of metre ...
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  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 2, 2014 9:29 pm
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    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 was time to reduce it all down ...
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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