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  • 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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Welcome to my site. I mostly write about playing for ballet (I'm a pianist), but the further back you go, the stupider the posts get, so I wouldn't recommend trawling through the archives for treasure.

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