Katherine Fisher and Julie Knerr
Katherine Fisher teaches piano at Athens Community Music School at Ohio University. She holds degrees in piano performance and piano pedagogy from Wheaton College and the University of Oklahoma and performs in the Fisher Piano Duo.

Julie Knerr is currently on the piano faculty of the Hartt Community Division at the University of Hartford. She holds a PhD in music education/piano pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma.
Katherine Fisher and Julie Knerr

The role of rote teaching in the development of reading, technique, and artistry

Rote teaching is the systematic introduction of musical and artistic concepts that are best introduced by modeling rather than from the notated score. Music is an aural art and thus transcends notation. Rote teaching is not (a) training students to copy the teacher without any thought or understanding, or (b) the creation of students who will forev...
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