Repertoire (general)

Question|Title Department Issue Authors
What are your favorite pieces? Why do you like them? Repertoire 1990, 1-3 Virginia Campbell, Lisa Strouse Caramia, Claudia McCain, Joanne Haroutounian
What are some of the pieces adults love to learn and why? Adult Piano Study 1990, 1-4 Jim Shanahan, Cathy Albergo
How do you plan a student's repertoire for the coming school year? Repertoire 1991, 2-2 Sara Krohn, Leanne Stehle Hedges, James B. Lyke
What is the first Bach piece you teach and what does the student need to know before beginning to learn it? Repertoire 1991, 2-3 Annette Conklin, Janet S. Swanzy
What is the first Mozart or Haydn piece you teach? What does the student need to know before beginning to learn it? Repertoire 1991, 2-4 Patricia Banks, Marsha Hollingsworth
What is the first Bartok piece you teach? Repertoire 1992, 3-2 Marilyn Krummel, Anita Whalen
What is your favorite early-level and intermediate-level ensemble music and why? Repertoire 1992, 3-3 Paul Pollei
What etudes do you use with your elementary and intermediate students and why? Technique 1992, 3-4 Amanda Byars, Leanne Hedges Kirkham, Kerry carlin
What is your favorite early-level and intermediate-level ensemble music and why? Part II Repertoire 1992, 3-4 Dallas Weekley and Nancy Arganbright, Rachel Kramer
Beyond the Beginning—How do you choose repertoire for your intermediate students? Repertoire 1993, 4-1 Martha Appleby, Jane Magrath
What is your favorite recital repertoire for 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year students? Repertoire 1993, 4-3 Kathleen Schubert, Lisa Bastien Hanss
What competition pieces do you use with early-level students and why? Repertoire 1993, 4-4 Maryen Herrett, Scott McBride Smith
What do you do when adults are determined to play repertoire they can't possibly play? Part 1: Shift to alternative choices. Adult Piano Study 1994, 5-1 Paul Sheftel, Robert Vandall
What is appropriate at the early level for the gifted child? Do you use a method book? Repertoire 1994, 5-1 Suzanne Guy, Ingrid Clarfield
What is good material to use with elementary transfer students who are playing music far too difficult? Repertoire 1994, 5-2 Yu-Jang Yang, Gayle Kowalchyk
How important are editions for the earliest repertoire? Repertoire 1994, 5-3 Carol Leone, E.L. Lancaster
What do you do when adults are determined to play repertoire they can't possibly play? Part II: Shift to transcriptions Adult Piano Study 1994, 5-4 Fred Kern, Phillip Keveren
Is the repertoire you are teaching in 1994-1995 different from the repertoire you taught in 1984-1985? Repertoire 1995, 6-1 Vicki Gray, Janet Mason, Carol Winborne
Can beginner pieces be attractive to recital audiences? Repertoire 1995, 6-3 Julie Sondag, Christine Franklin
What keyboard chamber music repertoire do you use with early intermediate students? Repertoire 1995, 6-4 Joanne Haroutounian, Kathryn Ranger, Dawn Costello Miller
How do you use repertoire to teach an analytical student to perform expressively? Repertoire 1996, 7-1 Dona Buel, Kaleel Skerik
What pieces do you teach that will never appear on your recitals? Repertoire 1996, 7-2 Martha Appleby, E. Gregory Nagode
Too late, too soon, too old, too new—What repertoire is the right repertoire? Repertoire 1996, 7-3 Martha Appleby
What kind of repertoire do you assign for an extended summer break? Repertoire 1997, 8-2 Sara McDaniel, Judy Plagge, Linda Witchie
What kind of repertoire do you assign to start off a new year? Repertoire 1997, 8-3 Kathryn Sherer, Roma Eicher, Donna Saunders
What repertoire helps your students prepare for Baroque style? Repertoire 1997, 8-4 Marvin Blickenstaff, Amy Rothstein, Sandra Stewart, Yat-Yee Chong
When choosing a method for your beginning students, what role does the repertoire play in your decision? Repertoire 1998, 9-1 Mary Sallee, Sister Cecilia Byrns, Vivian Miller Dula, Carol March
When choosing a method for your beginning students, what role does the repertoire play in your decision? Part II Repertoire 1998, 9-2 Helen Canine, Beatrice A. Miller, Erica G. McClellan
How do you balance repertoire students want to play with repertoire you want to teach? Repertoire 1998, 9-3 Peggy Hegel, Karen Harrington, Susan See
What repertoire do you pull out of the hat when a student falls into a slump? Repertoire 1998, 9-4 Sixteen teachers who are listed at the end of the article
What is your favorite repertoire for the teaching of alberti bass, trills, different articulations between the hands, and balance of melody and accompaniment? Repertoire 1999, 10-3 Teachers in North Carolina and Colorado
Do you ever assign arrangements of traditional repertoire? Repertoire 1999, 10-4  Marvin Blickenstaff, Kathryn Sherer, Arlene Steffen, Beverly Lapp, Monica Hochstedler
How does the student's reading level influence your repertoire assignments? Repertoire 2000, 11-1 Marvin Blickenstaff
How do you introduce new pieces to students? Repertoire 2000, 11-2 Martha Smith, Yu-Jane Yang, Annette Conklin, Susan See
When you know that high school will be the end of a student's lessons, what repertoire should have been covered?  Repertoire 2000, 11-3 Gay Garard-Brewer, Jean Fox, Avonne Higgins, Anita Renfroe
What makes a piece too hard for a student? Repertoire 2001, 12-1 Sylvia Coates, Melissa Falb, Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, Benjamin Whitten
What pieces have you written that you consider preparation for style? Repertoire 2001, 12-2 Nancy Faber, Catherine Rollin, Paul Sheftel
What is your student's first encounter with sonatina literature?  Repertoire 2002, 13-2 Miriam Byler, Yat-Yee Chong, Amy Glennon, Debra Ronning
What repertoire do you use as preparation for Romantic style? Repertoire 2002, 13-3 Elizabeth Gutierrez, Sylvia Hunt, James Litzelman
Are duets a regular part of your elementary and intermediate level students' repertoire assignments?  Repertoire 2002, 13-4 Carol Burggraaf, Laurisa Cope, David Sharpe, Martha K. Smith
What jazz materials do you use with your students?  Repertoire 2003, 14-1 Virginia and Kathryn Moore, Charlotte Rowe, Karen Thickstun
Do you assign special repertoire during the summer? Repertoire 2003, 14-2 Jennifer Lim, Cathy Lynn Smetana
Are there special pieces that help you start a new teaching year on a positive and successful note? Repertoire 2003, 14-3 Vivian Dula, Sherilyn Ortman, Barbara Wing
What repertoire have you used for "theme" recitals?  Repertoire 2003, 14-4 Marie Burnette, Noël Hogberg
Do you use recordings to reinforce your teaching of repertoire?  Repertoire 2004, 15-1 Mary Jane Clarke, Carla Dean Day, Jama Reagan
What are your all-time favorite pieces? T/S/P 2004, 15-2 Barbara Kreader
What repertoire do you use when a student can play with only one hand and how do you assign it? Repertoire 2004, 15-3 E. Douglas Bomberger, Sharon L. Parker, Rachael Short
When do you introduce original classics to beginning students and what are some of your favorite pieces/collections at this level?  Repertoire 2005, 16-1 Lynn Singleton, Janet Bass Smith, Chee-Hwa Tan
How do you introduce pieces with more than two flats or sharps, and what favorite repertoire do you use in more difficult keys? Repertoire 2005, 16-2 Donald Morelock, Sister Bernadone Rock, Suzanne Torkelson
When do you introduce concertos and what are some you have taught at the elementary and intermediate levels? Repertoire 2005, 16-3 Kim Bakkum, Gregory Butler, Paul Wirth
The Renaissance of the Piano Duet - an interview with Weekley and Arganbright News & Views 2005, 16-3 Dallas Weekley, Nancy Arganbright
Concertos, Part II: What are the first Mozart Concertos you teach and why? And what other early advanced concertos do you recommend? Repertoire 2005, 16-4 Laurent Boukobza, Virginia Marks, Sylvia Roederer
What are some of your favorite "surefire" pieces for today's junior high and high school students?  Repertoire 2006, 17-1 Christopher Fisher, Kathleen Guehlstorff, Mary Ann Head
What are some of your favorite etudes and exercises? Technique 2006, 17-2 Catharine Lysinger, Nehama Patkin, Krista Wallace-Boaz
What are some rhythmic pieces you like to teach and why? Rhythm 2006, 17-2 Helen Casano, Susan Osborn
What pieces do your adult students like to learn the most? Adult Piano Study 2006, 17-2 Vicki McArthur, Kenon Renfrow, Scott Price
When is a student ready to begin Bach Inventions? Which one do you assign first and where do you go from there? Repertoire 2006, 17-2 Father Sean Duggan, Louis B. Nagel
What do you think is essential when teaching the interpretation of music in the Classical style?  Repertoire 2006, 17-3 Augustus Arnone, Phyllis Rappeport

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