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One of Those "Wow!" Books

Just a few pages into The Perfect Wrong Note by William Westney I found myself thinking, “This is terrific; I wish I’d read this years...

Cultivating Creative, Motivated Students - Part 3: Get Up and Move!

In part one we discussed multimedia, part two was improvisation, and now we are on to the third and final part: movement! One of the best...

Cultivating Creative, Motivated Students - Part 2: Improvisation

In the first article, we talked about using multimedia to foster creativity and motivate your students. (If you missed it, click here.)...

Cultivating Creative, Motived Students - Part 1: Using Multimedia

Despite music being a creative endeavor, teachers often get stuck in a monotonous routine of doing the same things the same way all the...

The Benefits of Rote Teaching

Dr. Julie Knerr (left) teaches piano at her home studio in Windsor, Connecticut. She holds degrees in piano performance and piano...

Productivity Tips for Piano Teachers

A Guest Post by Joy Morin of ColorInMyPiano.com Click here for Joy's biography. If you are like me, you probably wear many hats: teaching...

What's Wrong With Me? Performing the Prokofiev Three Piano Concerto

Dr. Michelle Conda is the Head of the Keyboard Division and Coordinator of Secondary Piano and Piano Pedagogy and Professor of Piano at...

Composition in the Private Studio

Amy Rose Immerman is one of Cincinnati’s most active and well-known piano teachers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a...

Preserving Memories: A Sticker Book from 1938

Left: Houghton, Samuel G. (1938) The Music Album: a “stamp album” to collect and record your musical experiences and memories. New York:...

CCM-MTNA on The Future of Music Teaching

In the past few issues, Clavier Companion has released a series entitled “The Future of Piano Teaching.” While this is an open–ended and...