How important is it for the students to get to know the pieces of music on the CDs?
Gaining familiarity with the musical pieces (repertoire) is most important. This familiarity can be achieved by repeated casual listening to the CDs as a whole, much as one might listen to any CD in the car, on mom’s player in the kitchen, or on an iPod. But at some point, students will do well to give focused, concentrated listening to the music, piece by piece, as each piece comes up in the unit being studied.
