Repertoire Dept.

Question|Title Issue Authors
Have you tried teaching with all the plugs pulled? 1990, 1-2 Martha Appleby
What are your favorite pieces? Why do you like them? 1990, 1-3 Virginia Campbell, Lisa Strouse Caramia, Claudia McCain, Joanne Haroutounian
As a composer, what are your guidelines when writing music for early-level students? 1990, 1-4 John Robert Poe, Robert Vandall, Dennis Alexander
What are your guidelines when selecting early-level music for publication? 1991, 2-1 Mary Elizabeth Clark, Gayle Kowalchyk, Carole Flatau, Barbara Kreader, Beverly McGahey
How do you plan a student's repertoire for the coming school year? 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? 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? 1991, 2-4 Patricia Banks, Marsha Hollingsworth
How do you teach a student to communicate when performing? 1992, 3-1 Dawn Costello Miller, Donna O'Steen Edwards
What is the first Bartok piece you teach? 1992, 3-2 Marilyn Krummel, Anita Whalen
What is your favorite early-level and intermediate-level ensemble music and why? 1992, 3-3 Paul Pollei
What is your favorite early-level and intermediate-level ensemble music and why? Part II 1992, 3-4 Dallas Weekley and Nancy Arganbright, Rachel Kramer
Beyond the Beginning—How do you choose repertoire for your intermediate students? 1993, 4-1 Martha Appleby, Jane Magrath
What important elements of jazz are appropriate for early-level students? 1993, 4-2 Ann Collins, Tony Caramia, Arletta O'Hearn
What is your favorite recital repertoire for 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year students? 1993, 4-3 Kathleen Schubert, Lisa Bastien Hanss
What competition pieces do you use with early-level students and why? 1993, 4-4 Maryen Herrett, Scott McBride Smith
What is appropriate at the early level for the gifted child? Do you use a method book? 1994, 5-1 Suzanne Guy, Ingrid Clarfield
What is good material to use with elementary transfer students who are playing music far too difficult? 1994, 5-2 Yu-Jang Yang, Gayle Kowalchyk
How important are editions for the earliest repertoire? 1994, 5-3 Carol Leone, E.L. Lancaster
How do you transfer students' understanding of theory to their understanding of repertoire? 1994, 5-4 Linda Stump, Ann Milliman Gipson
Is the repertoire you are teaching in 1994-1995 different from the repertoire you taught in 1984-1985? 1995, 6-1 Vicki Gray, Janet Mason, Carol Winborne
How do you teach intuitive students to make decisions about interpretation? 1995, 6-2 Dona Buel, Kaleel Skeirik
Can beginner pieces be attractive to recital audiences? 1995, 6-3 Julie Sondag, Christine Franklin
What keyboard chamber music repertoire do you use with early intermediate students? 1995, 6-4 Joanne Haroutounian, Kathryn Ranger, Dawn Costello Miller
How do you use repertoire to teach an analytical student to perform expressively? 1996, 7-1 Dona Buel, Kaleel Skerik
What pieces do you teach that will never appear on your recitals? 1996, 7-2 Martha Appleby, E. Gregory Nagode
Too late, too soon, too old, too new—What repertoire is the right repertoire? 1996, 7-3 Martha Appleby
What interactive software do you find successful with early-level students? 1996, 7-4 Leanne Hedges Kirkham, Julie Romeo
It's a long walk! How important is stage etiquette at a piano recital? 1997, 8-1 Martha Appleby, Claudette Sorel
What kind of repertoire do you assign for an extended summer break? 1997, 8-2 Sara McDaniel, Judy Plagge, Linda Witchie
What kind of repertoire do you assign to start off a new year? 1997, 8-3 Kathryn Sherer, Roma Eicher, Donna Saunders
What repertoire helps your students prepare for Baroque style? 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? 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 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? 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? 1998, 9-4 Sixteen teachers who are listed at the end of the article
How do you check that a recital piece is well memorized? 1999, 10-1 Robert Vandall, Karen Vandall, Barbara Wasson
What is the pedagogical legacy of Louise Bianchi? 1999, 10-2 Marvin Blickenstaff, Sam Holland, Joanne Smith, Becky Corley, James Goldsworthy
What is your favorite repertoire for the teaching of alberti bass, trills, different articulations between the hands, and balance of melody and accompaniment? 1999, 10-3 Teachers in North Carolina and Colorado
Do you ever assign arrangements of traditional 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? 2000, 11-1 Marvin Blickenstaff
How do you introduce new pieces to students? 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? 2000, 11-3 Gay Garard-Brewer, Jean Fox, Avonne Higgins, Anita Renfroe
What makes a piece too hard for a student? 2001, 12-1 Sylvia Coates, Melissa Falb, Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, Benjamin Whitten
What pieces have you written that you consider preparation for style? 2001, 12-2 Nancy Faber, Catherine Rollin, Paul Sheftel
How do you cultivate your students' understanding of theory through the repertoire they play? 2001, 12-3 Audrejean Heydenburg, Marilynn A. Snyder, Suzanne Torkelson
How (and when) do you teach phrasing? 2001, 12-4 Karen Beres, Mariam Eley, Mary Reiff
What are some of your students' favorite recital pieces? 2002, 13-1 Carolyn Cassidy, Sister Mary Jane McGettigan, Rosemary Olson, Donna Sanders
What is your student's first encounter with sonatina literature? 2002, 13-2 Miriam Byler, Yat-Yee Chong, Amy Glennon, Debra Ronning
What repertoire do you use as preparation for Romantic style?  2002, 13-3 Elizabeth Gutierrez, Sylvia Hunt, James Litzelman
Are duets a regular part of your elementary and intermediate level students' repertoire assignments? 2002, 13-4 Carol Burggraaf, Laurisa Cope, David Sharpe, Martha K. Smith
What jazz materials do you use with your students?  2003, 14-1 Virginia and Kathryn Moore, Charlotte Rowe, Karen Thickstun
Do you assign special repertoire during the summer?  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? 2003, 14-3 Vivian Dula, Sherilyn Ortman, Barbara Wing
What repertoire have you used for "theme" recitals?  2003, 14-4 Marie Burnette, Noël Hogberg
Do you use recordings to reinforce your teaching of repertoire?  2004, 15-1 Mary Jane Clarke, Carla Dean Day, Jama Reagan
How do you include music history in the study of repertoire?  2004, 15-2 Renée Derstine, Jean Stackhouse, Sheila Vail
What repertoire do you use when a student can play with only one hand and how do you assign it? 2004, 15-3 E. Douglas Bomberger, Sharon L. Parker, Rachael Short
How do you introduce your students to Beethoven's "Fur Elise?"  2004, 15-4 Ann Guest, Jan Houser, Denise Strayer
When do you introduce original classics to beginning students and what are some of your favorite pieces/collections at this level?  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?  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? 2005, 16-3 Kim Bakkum, Gregory Butler, Paul Wirth
Concertos, Part II: What are the first Mozart Concertos you teach and why? And what other early advanced concertos do you recommend? 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?  2006, 17-1 Christopher Fisher, Kathleen Guehlstorff, Mary Ann Head
When is a student ready to begin Bach Inventions? Which one do you assign first and where do you go from there? 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?  2006, 17-3 Augustus Arnone, Phyllis Rappeport
How did your studies with a world-renowned interpreter of Chopin's music impact your own playing and teaching? 2006, 17-4 Ann Schein, Jerry Wong

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