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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 10, 2012 10:59 pm
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    Yet another third-party melody in The Nutcracker?

    Think of the scene in Nutcracker where all the guests go to bed, and in particular the tune in the bass that repeats and fragments until ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2011 9:47 am
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    The Steamboat, the Nutcracker and Bon voyage, cher Dumollet

    On Christmas day of all days, I’ve had possibly the most interesting comment ever posted on my blog with regard to the score of the Nutcracker. ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 21, 2011 7:42 am
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    At last: a picture of a mirliton

    I can’t tell you how pleased I am about this: Here, on a site dedicated to the iconography of the bagpipe, are two pictures of mirlitons (scroll down ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 13, 2009 2:07 am
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    Musical surprises #13: The male variation in Sugar Plum was originally in C minor

    Tchaikovsky has a reputation for  bringing high production values to the composition of ballet scores  by conceiving them architecturally and symphonically. But in practice, he’s as ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 5, 2009 9:08 am
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    Musical surprises #5: Mirlitons are cakes

    OK, so I’ve posted about this before, but hey it’s Christmas, and it’s still one of the great mysteries of musical life: why in the Kingdom ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 4, 2009 7:26 am
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    Musical surprises #4: There’s a cuckoo in the Nutcracker

    Well, a toy one anyway. If you look at the instrumentation for The Nutcracker over at www.tchaikovsky-research.org  (possibly the best resource about any composer on the ...
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