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OCR errors and ballet

Posted on December 2, 2020 11:35 am by Jonathan Still
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Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here’s one from ballet. Continue reading →

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Pianos and violins in the ballet class

Posted on July 9, 2020 6:47 am by Jonathan Still
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When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers. Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 20, 2019 1:19 pm by Jonathan Still
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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 of the Vaganova Ballet Academy,since 2015, with six issues a year? The articles are … Continue reading →

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Post-grad study for mature students : 15 tips

Posted on August 23, 2017 3:15 pm by Jonathan Still
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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, given that I had to interrupt for a year, and I’m living on borrowed … Continue reading →

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Importing documents and structure from Scrivener to MaxQDA

Posted on December 8, 2015 8:04 am by Jonathan Still
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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 that will then separate them out again into individual documents in MaxQDA.  If you’re … Continue reading →

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Musicology, ballet teaching and time signature

Posted on September 28, 2015 10:58 am by Jonathan Still
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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 single teaching session, when about 12 years of trying to teach about … Continue reading →

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