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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    November 24, 2020 6:41 pm
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    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 14, 2020 6:41 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #39 (KC): “Spanish waltz” medley

    What is a Spanish waltz? Is there such a thing? No, but here is one all the same, in case you're asked.
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 6, 2020 4:57 pm
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    A 19th century quadrille generator

    I remember inwardly eye-rolling when I heard a teacher many years ago claim excitedly that her pianist “never played the same thing twice.” Call me cynical, ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 13, 2019 11:48 am
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    Little Humpbacked Horse thesis online

    Great to read Aaron Manela’s masters thesis “Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse in Context,”  which is available online. Here’s the abstract:  In this study I examine ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 20, 2019 10:34 am
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    Sources for the “Esmeralda” pas de deux

    One of the oddities about the ballet repertoire is that the more famous and frequently performed the piece, the more tricky its musical history, like the  ...
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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    December 11, 2018 3:48 pm
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    Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

    Nice to see an article about marching music, one of the weird, esoteric topics  that perplex ballet pianists like me: a 2018 conference paper byNiels Hansen, ...
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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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