A year of ballet playing cards #15: A rumpty-tumpty waltz (Oh! Oh! Antonio)
Get the piano score (free download) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards I like it when teachers set grands battements on what I call a rumpty-tumpty 3.…
Music for ballet class, circa 1921
Kosloff's "Russian Ballet Technique, as Taught", published in 1921, contains a one-page guide to matching appropriate music to exercises in a typical ballet class of the day. For teachers and…
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside” sheet music online at last
One of the reasons I’ll never have a hit record with Non, Je ne regrette rien is because unfortunately, I do have one big regret. Coming home in the car…
Études (ballet) – the sources for Riisager’s score
A commenter who’d read one of my posts about my searches for the Czerny sources for Riisager’s ballet Etudes (see this post, too) asked if I’d ever made a list…
Trolololo sheet music for piano
Before you get excited, I haven’t got it, but I have found the first page of it here. I tried searching for the original title “я очень рад ведь я…
New Chiquinha Gonzaga archive
I’ve had several emails from people thanking me for passing on the link to the Ernesto Nazareth site, which includes a complete archive of Ernesto Nazareth’s compositions, the painstaking and…