Success In Piano Teaching

Product Description
One of my hopes in assembling the material in this book is that teachers who are not always free to attend refresher courses may be able to get some new ideas from it, and that some of them will find renewed inspiration in it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE 4
PART I 7
1 THE TEACHER’S QUALIFICATIONS 7
2 ADVERTISING YOUR PROFESSION 12
3 CLASS PIANO TEACHING 17
4 DISCIPLINE 23
5 PRACTICE 28
6 “DO I HAVE TO PRACTICE SCALES?” 35
7 THE TWO BUGBEARS—COUNTING AND FINGERING 39
8 PLAYING FROM MEMORY 47
9 SIGHT READING AND PLAYING 52
10 PEDALING 60
11 TECHNQUE 63
12 INTERPRETATION 67
13 ENSEMBLE PLAYING 70
14 THE ADULT BEGINNER 74
15 REWARDS AND INCENTIVES 77
16 RECITALS 80
17 MISCELLANEOUS TEACHING HINTS 86
18 SELF-ANALYSIS FOR TEACHERS 101
PART II 104
19 THE PARENTS AND THE MUSIC TEACHER 104
20 MISSED LESSONS 113
21 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE PIANO TEACHER 116
22 DO CLOTHES MATTER? 119
23 LET US HAVE GOOD AMATEURS! 122
24 CREATIVE MUSIC 125
25 IS MUSIC WORTH WHILE? 128
APPENDIX ANECDOTES IN SEVERAL KEYS 132
THE MAKINGS OF A TEACHER 147
QUOTATIONS FOR RECITAL PROGRAMS 148
HATS OFF TO THE PRIVATE TEACHER 150

Product Description
One of my hopes in assembling the material in this book is that teachers who are not always free to attend refresher courses may be able to get some new ideas from it, and that some of them will find renewed inspiration in it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE 4
PART I 7
1 THE TEACHER’S QUALIFICATIONS 7
2 ADVERTISING YOUR PROFESSION 12
3 CLASS PIANO TEACHING 17
4 DISCIPLINE 23
5 PRACTICE 28
6 “DO I HAVE TO PRACTICE SCALES?” 35
7 THE TWO BUGBEARS—COUNTING AND FINGERING 39
8 PLAYING FROM MEMORY 47
9 SIGHT READING AND PLAYING 52
10 PEDALING 60
11 TECHNQUE 63
12 INTERPRETATION 67
13 ENSEMBLE PLAYING 70
14 THE ADULT BEGINNER 74
15 REWARDS AND INCENTIVES 77
16 RECITALS 80
17 MISCELLANEOUS TEACHING HINTS 86
18 SELF-ANALYSIS FOR TEACHERS 101
PART II 104
19 THE PARENTS AND THE MUSIC TEACHER 104
20 MISSED LESSONS 113
21 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE PIANO TEACHER 116
22 DO CLOTHES MATTER? 119
23 LET US HAVE GOOD AMATEURS! 122
24 CREATIVE MUSIC 125
25 IS MUSIC WORTH WHILE? 128
APPENDIX ANECDOTES IN SEVERAL KEYS 132
THE MAKINGS OF A TEACHER 147
QUOTATIONS FOR RECITAL PROGRAMS 148
HATS OFF TO THE PRIVATE TEACHER 150

Success In Piano Teaching

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