Using the popular book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, I propose several steps an early childhood music teacher can undertake in “tidying up” one’s repertoire list. These include considering the criteria for selection, determining the number of selections necessary for one’s main collection, checking one’s current repertoire list against the criteria, and looking for selections to cull, adding new selections, and considering how to store or display the repertoire. Throughout I provide examples from my own setting in the hopes that readers will transfer the ideas to their settings.
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