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A Year of Ballet Playing Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Music Playing 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 Cards Free sheet music for ballet class Playing 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.
Dance Music

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 Legends Music

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.
Dance Music

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.