When our local music teachers association dubbed our first meeting of the year a “New Music Review” I knew exactly what I wanted to play. I had recently received Wendy Stevens’ newest book, How Sweet the Sound, and fell in love with the first arrangement – Day of Arising. It’s a gorgeous setting that just […]
Repertoire Suggestions
Monday Mailbag – Introducing Baroque Music
How do you introduce baroque period music or any music with counterpoint to a student for the first time? What a great question! However, I’m afraid my answer will reveal my total lack of structure when it comes to intermediate level students, so I’m hoping that others will share their thoughts on how to approach […]
Christmas Music Galore!
In continuing yesterday’s theme of finding music, today I wanted to share some links I’ve found for free Christmas Music: Making Music Fun – A variety of levels, simple/straight-forward melodies, rather than arranged pieces. Music for Music Teachers – simple melodies; not very exciting musically, but good for those who just want to play familiar […]
Monday Mailbag – Finding Music
You seem to have plentiful sources of repertoire at your fingertips. I am having a hard time finding good supplemental music for my small, beginning studio. The closest music store is about an hour away, so I rely heavily on internet searching and shopping. However, I find it difficult to know the level of the […]
Lots of Free Music!
Rebecca W. just alerted me recently to this fabulous Musopen website! Have you seen it yet? They have an enormous selection of music (audio) and sheet music that can be accessed for free, played from the site, downloaded, and embedded into other websites. In fact, as I type this, I am enjoying listening to a […]
Monday Mailbag – Mysterious Repertoire
After reading about the success of your incentive programs I decided to come up with my own for this fall. I’m still working on it, but it’s going to be about exploring the mystery of music. I’m wondering if you have any pieces that come to mind for recitals? (So far I have Agent X, […]
