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Modern Ballet Studio Melodies Volume 2
Modern Ballet Studio Melodies Volume 2, more inspirational and uplifting melodies to compliment your full ballet class.
Photography: Brian Slater
Engineered and Produced by: CW Lynch, c/o GOOLINNMUSIC
goolinnmusic@gmail.com
CD Design: Ian Cottrill
Tracks Arranged and Played by: Christopher Hobson
CD © 2010, Christopher N. Hobson
Track Listing:
BARRE
1 Warm Up - Someone To Watch Over Me,(Gershwin) (128 counts in 4/4)
2 Plié 1 - Nocturne no.7 from ‘A MidsummerNight’s Dream’, (Mendelssohn) (128 counts in 3/4)
3 Plié 2 - Cavatina, (Myers) (128 counts in 3/4)
4 Slow Battement Tendu - Cry Me A River, (Hamilton) (128 counts in 4/4)
5 Battement Tendu - Habanera from ‘Carmen’, (Bizet) (128 counts in 2/4)
6 Glissé/Dégagé - Mexican Hat Dance (Traditional) (128 counts in 6/8)
7 Rond De Jambe à Terre - Nocturne in Eb, (Chopin) (128 counts in 3/4)
8 Battement Frappé 1 - Luck Be A Lady, (Loesser) (128 counts in 2/4)
9 Battement Frappé 2 - I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’, (Gershwin) (128 counts in 2/4)
10 Petit Battement - Theme from ‘Wallace and Gromit’ (Nott) (64 counts in 2/4)
11 Battement Fondu - Por Una Cabeza, (Gardel) (128 counts in 4/4)
12 Rond De Jambe en l’air - Liebesleid, (Kreisler/Rachmaninov) (64 counts in 3/4)
13 Adage - Le Cygne from ‘Carnival of the Animals’, (Sain-Saëns) (64 counts in 3/4)
14 Développé - Ardspach Waters, (Hobson) (64 counts in 3/4)
15 Grand Battement - Theme from ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, (Gershwin) (64 counts in 4/4)
16 Grand Battement en Clôche - Chim Chim Cher-ee, (Sherman) (64 counts in 3/4)
17 Stretch 1 - With Or Without You, (U2) (64 counts in 3/4)
18 Stretch 2 - The Rose, (McBroom) (128 counts in 4/4)
CENTRE
19 Port De Bras 1 - Stranger On The Shore, (Bilk) (64 counts in 3/4)
20 Port De Bras 2 - When You Wish Upon A Star, (Harline) (128 counts in 4/4)
21 Adage - She (Kretzmer & Aznavour) (64 counts in 3/4)
22 Battement Tendu - Tango Maureen, (Larson) (128 counts in 4/4)
23 Grand Battement - March from ‘The Nutcracker’, (Tchaikovsky) (128 counts in 4/4)
24 Pirouette - The Masochism Tango, (Lehrer) (128 counts in 4/4)
25 Jumps 1 - Theme from ‘The Muppet Show’, (Jenson & Pottle) (128 counts in 2/4)
26 Jumps 2 - Theme from ‘Carnival of the Animals’ (Sain-Saëns) (64 counts in 2/4)
27 Jumps 3 - Lambeth Walk, (Gay, Rose & Furber) (128 counts in 2/4)
28 Jumps 4 - Polonaise Op 40 No 1, (Chopin) (64 counts in 6/4)
29 Petit Allegro 1 - The Lonely Goatherd, (Rodgers & Hammerstein) (128 counts in 2/4)
30 Petit Allegro 2 - I’d Do Anything, (Bart) (128 counts in 2/4)
31 Medium Allegro - Let’s Go Fly A Kite, (Sherman & Sherman) (128 counts in 3/4)
32 Grand Allegro 1 - Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’, (Rodgers & Hammerstein) (128 counts in 3/4)
33 Grand Allegro 2 - Male Variation from ‘Don Quixote’, (Minkus) (72 counts in 3/4)
34 Coda - To Life, (Bock & Harnick) (128 counts in 2/4)
35 Cool Down & Reverence - Expressions, (Hobson) (48+8 counts in 3/4)