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In this update to their classic book
From the Stage to the Studio, authors Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott offer aspiring teacher-musicians useful wisdom and practical tips to enhance their careers. This new edition features updated information on new methods and techniques of study for music education as well as best practice recommendations for online teaching.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Stephen Clapp
- Preface
- PART I
- THE PERFORMING MUSICIAN
- Introduction When Your Calling in Life Is to Perform, Why Learn to Teach?
- 1 Musicality
- 2 Listening
- 3 Technique
- 4 Practicing
- 5 Performing
- PART II
- THE ART OF TEACHING
- 6 Teaching Principles
- 7 Sequencing
- 8 Fostering Student Independence
- 9 Comprehensive Teaching
- 10 Your Teaching Philosophy
- PART III
- THE MUSICIAN AS A TEACHING PROFESSIONAL
- 11 Establishing a Teaching Studio
- 12 Groups, Ensembles, Classrooms, and Other Teaching Situations
- 13 Quandaries and Options
- 14 The Cyclical and Reciprocal Nature of Teaching and Learning
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Index
About the author
Cornelia Watkins, cellist and author, is a lecturer at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and teaches privately from her home in Madison, WI. She previously taught graduate pedagogy and preparatory cello at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Ms Watkins speaks regularly at music teaching conferences and written articles for multiple music publications including The Strad and American String Teacher. She is the author of two books about teaching and playing: Rosindust: Teaching, Learning and Life from a Cellist's Perspective and the present volume.
Laurie Scott is Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, she serves as the director of The University of Texas String Project and the Musical Lives string program at UT Elementary School. Previous to this appointment, Dr. Scott served as professor of violin and viola and director of music education studies at Southwestern
University in Georgetown, Texas. A former school orchestra director, she now mentors young professionals toward successful lives as string educators. Her former students have become exemplary string educators, professional studio and symphony musicians, and passionate arts advocates.
Summary
In this update to their classic book From the Stage to the Studio, authors Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott offer aspiring teacher-musicians useful wisdom and practical tips to enhance their careers. This new edition features updated information on new methods and techniques of study for music education as well as best practice recommendations for online teaching.
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I highly recommend this book. It is practical, comprehensive and easy to approach and read.
