how much music should they bring?

imagep
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:26:55 +0000

My son’s applied music professor posts what is required for each level (freshman, sophomore, etc) on his studio website. The first year my son had a couple of the books already, the remainder I purchased online for less than a hundred bucks. The first day of private lessons my son brought all the books except for a couple to class, apparently that was the correct answer, the professor checked his books against the list and then scolded him for not being prepaired (not bringing the other two).

Outside of that list, nothing was expected or needed. This year my son was able to leave about half of those first year books at home and needed four new ones, and it will continue that way for the next two years.

His applied music professor also provided an “audition manual” which contained about 100 pieces of music in printable PDF form that are commonly used for audition pieces, a practice manual in pdf form (basically like a sylubus thats takes 8 semesters to complete, with week by week assignments), and he required the purchase of his own version of a musicians daily practice book (kind of a combination of a day planner calendar with space for both student and teacher notes and places to keep a log of practice hours.

For ensembles and other classes, all materials were provided or were in the textbooks.

Like another poster said, just bring the minimum that is required, they really won’t have much time for anything else.