A Revised Version of Music for Ballet Class
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This article is an appraisal of the current release of the revised version of The First Class Albums, Ballet Class Music by Don Caron.If you’re not familiar with this material, the first versions of The First Class Albums were quite successful worldwide and at times during the last twenty-five years, were top-selling ballet class recordings, a standing the albums have also achieved on various digital music sites since that point, including CDBaby, Amazon and iTunes.
Quite recently, the four albums of the First Class Album series were re-released after a thorough re-mastering for digital medium and the addition of new material to create full length CDs. They were initially released on vinyl, and as you probably know, vinyl records were restricted to about thirty minutes to a side, whereas CDs will hold up to seventy-six minutes.
Every albums contains a complete ballet class, and both the barre and center sections now include many of the exercises in several tempos. This is handy as the different tempos make the exercises useful for other ballet exercises and not just the ones they’re written for.
Doubtless, the most engaging facet of these albums is that they stand apart from all other ballet class music albums currently available because of the fact that they adhere to a system of ballet class music production known as the Motosonus Method.
This strategy was created following a series of ad hoc studies at Eastern Washington University in the early 1980s. The purpose of the studies was to find out if certain elements of music could be used to enhance the productivity of ballet instruction and thereby also speed up the learning process on the part of dancers.
Not surprisingly, it seems that the intentional use of phrasing, beat placement, and other piano playing techniques can have a noticeable effect on the reaction of the dancers, and the employment of the techniques on these albums can make a major difference in your teaching.
This essay is presented courtesy of Gaylord Pannitron. For more information about the Motosonus Method, examples can be found here: ballet class music, on a website for ballet class teachers and pianists. The First Class Albums mentioned in this post can be found in Amazon’s ballet class music catalogue.
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