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Tag: Tchaikovsky

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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 12, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards #44: A long, jolly polka/galop from Le Diable à quatre (5d)

    Download the score of the galop for ballet class (pdf) for free Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Something about this galop for ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 1, 2015 12:03 pm
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    Happy 2015: A new year’s ramble about Black Swan and other ballet anomalies

    As it’s the first day of a new year, I’ve decided to do something about one of the greatest annoyances in my list of ballet-pianist anxieties: the Black ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 12, 2014 7:17 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #12: Wrong notes

    “You should play more wrong notes, then people wouldn’t notice so much.” That was the kind, but impractical advice given to me by a good friend in ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 6, 2014 8:02 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #6: Playing the Black Swan variation music

    The music that is harder to find than a black swan Let’s start with a few facts. Although this solo, and the Black Swan pas de deux ...
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  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 9, 2014 6:39 pm
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    The rarity of truly triple metre

    If you’ve been following this blog recently, you know that I’m a little obsessed with time signature and metre in the 18th & 19th centuries (see ...
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  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 7, 2014 4:40 pm
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    Counting Tchaikovsky

    On the weekend, I was playing the tarantella-ish Prince’s solo from Sleeping Beauty. Then, as every time I play this music, I panicked half way through the ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
  • DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
  • 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.
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