I have brought this posting forward from "Marking up Music" in the AB forum as I would like to offer it a resource not only for adult musicians but also for discussion among piano teachers. "Music Mapping" is a legitimate, organized, established and successfaul adjunct to piano teaching that offers much in the way of helping students of all ages to read and understand music. I find it particularly influential in music analysing with the student and that music mapping produces very accurate memorization.

I hope someone chooses to explore it as an effective learning tool.

Mapping Music: For Faster Learning and Secure Memory, A Guide for Piano Teachers and Students (1997, 2001) (Also published in a Korean translation by Hanyang University Press in 2002)

Dr. Rebecca Payne Shockley

Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Coordinator of Class Piano at the University of Minnesota. A native of Cincinnati, she holds degrees in piano performance from Indiana University, where she studied under Joseph Battista and Sidney Foster, and a D.M.A. from the University of Colorado, where she worked with Guy Duckworth. She also holds a Performer's Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying under Guy Jonson.

She has given presentations on music learning for colleges, universities, and music teacher organizations across the U.S. and in England, Canada, Taiwan, China and Korea.

An active member of Music Teachers National Association, Shockley chaired the Pedagogy Saturday Committee for two years and previously served on the National Convention Program Committee. For twelve years she also chaired the Committee on Learning Theory for the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. She has given clinics for Frederick Harris and the Lorenz Corporation, and she served on the Advisory Board for Piano Discoveries, a recent piano method published by Lorenz.

Her articles have appeared in Clavier, The American Music Teacher, Keyboard Companion, Piano Life, Piano Journal, and College Music Symposium.

Betty Patnude

It's a good discussion, Betty. Personally, I print out a work copy and mark it up all I want, then transfer the markings that prove out to the printed score. I've found I can have some of these books for a long time! Of course, back then we did have pencils, but not scanners or computers.

The resource you mentioned--- it's a book? If it was intended to be a link, it doesn't work.

I have found out, by the way, that not all scores erase well.

Interesting info, Betty. I studied with Mrs. Shockley many years ago and had no idea where she was today.

Jeff,

It is not a link.

If you are interested in googling the name of the book: "Music Mapping" it will come up.

Barb,

Very interesting! Were you a child at the time? I've never met her in person but I know she's very active in MTNA and has had some articles published in AMT magazine. She certainly is an accomplished pedagogue.

Betty

Betty, I studied with Becky Shockley back in.....drum roll....1973-1976-ish. It would be considered one of those "I knew her when" stories.

She has certainly accomplished a great deal and I am going to get busy and read her materials. Thanks so much for the link and info.