areas of their lives. They incorporate more musicianship classes,
improvisation, accompanying, harmonization, ensemble work, theory
and ear training into their lessons than does the typical private teacher.
The last section covers almost every notable facet of group instruction
of interest to the independent teacher. Topics range from the teacher’s
personal qualifications to forming and maintaining groups of piano stu-
dents. Many questions may be answered in this informative third sec-
tion of Skiba’s thesis.
Additional References
Bradley, J. “Ideas for Great Group Piano Classes.”
American Suzuki Journal
Vol.23, No. 3 (1995): pp.36-
37.
Lee, J. “Group Piano Lessons: A Practical Guide.” Music
Teacher Vol.60 (October, 1981): p.24.
Rose-Joubert, M. “Group Piano Teaching: The Other
Side of the Coin – A Personal Experience.” ISME
(1990): pp.204-207.
Williams, Roderick Rockhill. Group Piano Instruction:
Its Relationship to Private Piano Teaching. Ph.D.
diss., Columbia Pacific University, 1990.
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