Music for Ballet Class Volume 3
Music for Children’s Ballet Class "Overture & Beginners" This Volume has 2 classes with 60 tracks of music. “Overture” is for little children aged between 3 and 7. 19 tracks of music to accompany a class for this age group and introduce them to different styles of music, some of which will be familiar to them (Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, etc.) and classical music, eg. Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" and Mozart's Magic Flute. There's music for improvisation and expression, and "Rhythm" exercises, clapping time.
The second class "Beginners" has 40 tracks of music for children aged between ca. 7 and 12. The music is bright and spirited arranged from films and musicals (ET, Mary Poppins, Snow White etc.) and classical music (Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mozart etc.) all adapted to fit a comprehensive class for youngsters. The CD ends with an "Expressive Dance" section with 6 different pieces to dance to.
Audio CD – £14.99
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Track list and samples
| # | Name | Signature | Bars | Duration | Exercise | Sample |
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| 01 | Skips around the room “Nellie the Elephant”, Butler & Hart |
6/8 | 64 bars | 1:09 | Class 1 |
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| 02 | Little feet stretching Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, J. Taylor “Baa Baa Black Sheep” |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:18 | Class 1 | |
| 03 | Ex. For Demi-Pliés Edelweiss, R. Rodgers |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:58 | Class 1 |
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| 04 | Ex. For Demi-Pliés, or Foot Ex. “When you wish upon a Star”, Harline |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:10 | Class 1 | |
| 05 | Ex. For Positions of the Feet from “The Magic Flute”, Mozart |
2/4 | 16 bars | 0:36 | Class 1 |
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| 06 | Ex. For Positions of the Arms “Where is your Heart”, Auric & Larue |
3/4 | 32 bars | 1:01 | Class 1 | |
| 07 | Step to side and hop “Pop goes the Weasel” |
6/8 | 32 bars | 0:42 | Class 1 | |
| 08 | Clapping Time: March March of the Siamese Children, Rodgers |
4/4 | 24 bars | 0:45 | Class 1 | |
| 09 | Clapping Time: Waltz “Oom Pah Pah” from “Oliver”, L. Bart |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:41 | Class 1 | |
| 10 | Quicker Waltz Chimchiminee, Sherman Bros. |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:33 | Class 1 |
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| 11 | Port de Bras “Some Day my Prince will come”, Churchill |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:50 | Class 1 | |
| 12 | Galops Teddy Bears’ Picnic, J. Bratton |
6/8 | 64 bars | 1:09 | Class 1 | |
| 13 | Little Jump Step “I’ve got no Strings”, Harline |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:43 | Class 1 | |
| 14 | Walks around the Room “With a Smile and a Song”, Churchill |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:11 | Class 1 |
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| 15 | Little runs and pauses “Supercalifragilistic”, Sherman Bros. “Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho”, from Snow White |
2/4 | 64 bars | 1:07 | Class 1 | |
| 16 | Expressive Dance “A Melancholy Mood”, César Franck |
3/4 | 32 bars | 1:14 | Class 1 | |
| 17 | “A Happy Mood” Waltz “The Nutcracker”, Tchaikovsky |
3/4 | 64 bars | 0:57 | Class 1 | |
| 18 | Improvisation to "A Little Story" Margot Kazimirska |
1:21 | Class 1 | |||
| 19 | Bow or Reverence | 4/4 | 4 bars | 0:19 | Class 1 |
| # | Name | Signature | Bars | Duration | Exercise | - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Pre-Barre Rag-Time “Sunflower Slow Drag”, Scott Joplin |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:46 | Class 2 | |
| 21 | Exercise for Demi-Plié “Over the Sea to Skye”, Trad. |
6/8 | 32 bars | 1:38 | Class 2 | |
| 22 | Demi-Pliés & Grand Pliés \"Feed the Birds\", Sherman Bros. |
3/4 | 64 bars | 1:52 | Class 2 |
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| 23 | Alternative music for Pliés “A Whole New World”, Menken |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:22 | Class 2 | |
| 24 | 1st Battement Tendus “Prince Igor”, Borodin |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:06 | Class 2 |
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| 25 | 2nd Batt. Tendus “Peer Gynt”, Grieg |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:58 | Class 2 | |
| 26 | Battement Jeté “Bear Necessities”, Gilkyson |
4/4 | 32 bars | 0:45 | Class 2 | |
| 27 | Ronds de Jambe a Terre “Where is Love”, L. Bart |
4/4 | 16 bars + 8 | 1:22 | Class 2 | |
| 28 | Ronds de Jambe or Batt. Fondu “The Green Leaves of Summer”, Tiomkin |
3/4 | 32 bars + 4 | 1:05 | Class 2 |
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| 29 | Battements Frappés “Fledermaus”, J. Strauss |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:28 | Class 2 |
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| 30 | Développés “June”, Tchaikovsky |
4/4 | 16 bars + 4 | 1:07 | Class 2 | |
| 31 | Ex. For Retirés from “Carmen”, Bizet |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:35 | Class 2 | |
| 32 | Grands Battements “Buddle-Uddle-Um”, Snow White, Churchill |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:15 | Class 2 | |
| 33 | Grands Battements Mazurka, Coppélia. Delibes |
3/4 | 16 bars | 0:21 | Class 2 |
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| 34 | Relevés Old Homestead, Penn |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:03 | Class 2 |
| # | Name | Signature | Bars | Duration | Exercise | - |
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| 35 | Loosening up before the centre Tulips from Amsterdam, Arnie |
3/4 | 64 bars | 0:58 | Centre | |
| 36 | Port de Bras Theme from “ET”, J. Williams |
3/4 | 32 bars | 1:09 | Centre |
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| 37 | Battements Tendus “Maybe” from Annie, Strouse |
4/4 | 64 bars | 1:52 | Centre | |
| 38 | Ex. For Balancés, slow version Mazurka, Chopin |
3/4 | 16 bars | 0:33 | Centre | |
| 39 | Balancés, faster version Mazurka, Chopin |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:51 | Centre | |
| 40 | Ex. For Pas de Bourrées, slow Gavotte, Bach |
4/4 | 16 bars | 0:36 | Centre | |
| 41 | Ex. For Pas de Bourrées, faster Gavotte, Bach |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:05 | Centre | |
| 42 | Changements Hornpipe, Trad. |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:39 | Centre | |
| 43 | Little Jumps Ragtime Dance, Scott Joplin |
2/4 | 64 bars | 1:20 | Centre | |
| 44 | Assemblés or Ex. For Pirouettes “Don’t Fence Me In”, C. Porter |
4/4 | 32 bars | 0:58 | Centre | |
| 45 | Galops “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”, Sherman “Popeye the Sailor Man”, Trad. |
6/8 | 32 bars | 0:22 | Centre |
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| 46 | Polka, slow vers. Pizzicato-Polka, J. Strauss |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:53 | Centre | |
| 47 | Polka, faster vers. Pizzicato-Polka, J. Strauss |
2/4 | 32 bars | 0:45 | Centre | |
| 48 | Travelling Steps across the Room Tarantella, M. Kazimirska |
6/8 | 64 bars | 1:04 | Centre | |
| 49 | Dancing & Stopping to Pose Waltz, with Rallentandos, Shostakovich |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:45 | Centre | |
| 50 | Polonaise Don Quixote, Minkus |
3/4 | 64 bars | 2:05 | Centre | |
| 51 | Allegro Jump Step Paradise Waltz, Lehar |
3/4 | 32 bars | 0:34 | Centre | |
| 52 | Waltz Grand Allegro Viennese style waltz, M. Jary |
3/4 | 64 bars | 1:04 | Centre |
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| 53 | March Step from Romeo & Juliet, Prokofiev |
4/4 | 32 bars | 1:14 | Centre |
| # | Name | Signature | Bars | Duration | Exercise | - |
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| 54 | “Walking above the Clouds” from La Bayadere, Minkus |
4/4 | 16 bars | 1:36 | Expressive Dance | |
| 55 | “The Awakening” from Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky |
3/4 | 32 bars | 1:06 | Expressive Dance | |
| 56 | A Dance to the Spinning Song Spinning Song, Ellmenreich |
2/4 | 34 bars | 0:45 | Expressive Dance | |
| 57 | A Festive Dance from Coppélia, Delibes |
2/4 | 24 bars | 0:43 | Expressive Dance | |
| 58 | At the Circus “Kupferberg-Gold Galop”, Eberle |
2/4 | 64 bars | 1:04 | Expressive Dance | |
| 59 | The Dying Swan The Swan, Saint-Saens |
6/8 | 16 bars | 1:10 | Expressive Dance | |
| 60 | Reverence | 3/4 | 8 bars | 0:24 | Expressive Dance |
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