In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchard's strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.

A veteran teacher's practical guide for music students

About the Author

Bonnie Blanchard is author of Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (IUP, 2007).

Cynthia Blanchard Acree is author (with Cliff Acree) of The Gulf between Us: Love and Terror in Desert Storm.

Reviews

Wonderfully comprehensive . . . easy-to-read. This is a great book that every teacher will want to own and refer to often. It is the kind of book you will want every one of your students-and their parents-to own as well!

* American String Teacher *

A fabulous source of information to answer EVERY imaginable concern or query that a music student (or their parent) may have. . . I'm just a bit sad that Bonnie didn't write this back in the dark ages when I was a kid. . . . I needed this book and I know I would have adored it. 4/28/2010

-- Alexa Still * www.alexastill.com *



Book Information
ISBN 9780253221353
Author Bonnie Blanchard
Format Paperback
Page Count 472
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press