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 out of…
A year of ballet playing cards #18: Another 6/8 allegro – by Auber (5h)
Download music for allegro in six eight (6/8) by Auber (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards This music for allegro in six eight is what…
A year of ballet playing cards #16 : Esmeralda male variation music (3h)
Download the score of the Esmeralda male variation music (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You can never have enough grand allegro, and this is…
The schottische and the chotis, and other dances
It’s years ago since a Spanish friend and dancing colleague told me that there was a connection between Schottische and a Spanish dance called chotis, and I’ve been meaning to…
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 to a…
More on “truly triple meter” – are Chopin’s waltzes really mazurkas?
I’m not saying that Chopin couldn’t write a waltz, or that his embodied sense of waltzing was too fragile to be able to incorporate it in music. But I wonder…