Tag: musicology
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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. -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Research on marching music and 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 by Niels Hansen, ... -
Black Swan, the design of everyday things, and the extended mind
I’ve been very nervous of trying out the orchestral reduction I made in January 2015 of the Black Swan female variation for real-life principals in companies in case ...
