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Exploring Learning Styles: Developing a Flexible

The sixth annual Pedagogy Saturday was titled "Exploring Learning Styles: Developing A Flexible Teaching Approach." This all-day event was devoted to an in-depth study of how different students learn,

Polyphony: the rhythm of musical development

The teaching year has an unmistakable rhythm to it as we come to a junction where students suddenly seem to perform with more depth and sensitivity and deeper musical insight.

Essential skills for promoting a lifelong love

The question of what we mean by musical "skill" fascinates me, so I was delighted to be asked to contribute to this worthy series. Certainly, essential skills--substantial skills for a lifetime.

He collaborativeexperience

Derived from the Latin collaborate, collaborate literally means to "labor with," to work together.

The Best In Recorded Music	THe Story of Classical Music
You can get lost in the voice, the music, the vibe of Grammy and Tony award-winning jazz vocalist DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER's new recording more	CLASSICAL MUSIC 101: COMPLETE GUIDE TO LEARNING AND LOVING CLASSICAL MUSIC. Fred Plotkin. 2002/ 2004. Read by the author. more
Making Music at the Piano	What Works learning as a partnership
Making Music at the Piano: Learning Strategies for Adult Students, by Barbara English Maris. Oxford University Press, more	Every time I hear a youngster banging out "Chopsticks" on the piano, I think of poor Mr. Flanek and my five trying weeks under his tutelage. more

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Black Folk Music to the Civil War

Dena Epstein's Sinful Tunes and Spirituals is mandatory reading for anyone seeking in-depth education concerning the development of African and African American musical traditions in the New World.