Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Writings
  • A Year of Ballet Playing Cards
  • About me
    • Transcription services
  • Contact

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

  • Home
  • Writings
  • A Year of Ballet Playing Cards
  • About me
    • Transcription services
  • Contact
  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: research

Home›Posts Tagged "research"
  • IT
    By Jonathan Still
    December 2, 2020 11:35 am
    151
    0

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
    Read More
  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 9, 2020 7:47 am
    673
    0

    Pianos and violins in the ballet class

    When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers.
    Read More
  • Dance
    By Jonathan Still
    May 20, 2019 1:19 pm
    385
    0

    Bulletin of the Vaganova Ballet Academy — online journal (with English abstracts)

    Am I the last person to have noticed that the Vaganova Ballet Academy has published a serious journal containing the work of Russian dance scholars, Bulletin ...
    Read More
  • Books
    By Jonathan Still
    August 23, 2017 3:15 pm
    115
    4

    Post-grad study for mature students : 15 tips

    A while back, a friend and colleague who is about to start a PhD asked me if I had any advice. I said, don’t ask me, ...
    Read More
  • By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2015 8:04 am
    245
    0

    Importing documents and structure from Scrivener to MaxQDA

    Here’s my triumph of the day: getting Scrivener to export about 400 separate documents into a single file that you can then import into MaxQDA with a code ...
    Read More
  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 28, 2015 10:58 am
    127
    1

    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 ...
    Read More
1 2 3 4
  • Dance LegendsMusic

    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.
  • DanceMusic

    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.
  • IT

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
  • Music

    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class

    More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

    Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
© Copyright Jonathan Still 2020
Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!